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Automatic 1000 item RSS AI engine from category WORLD NEWS AS REPORTEDenTASS (Russian News Agency): Aeroflot cancels 14 flights on Friday due to bad weatherhttp://tass.com/economy/1049908
The airline is cancelling flights from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport to Warsaw, Berlin, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Voronezh, Tallinn and Nizhny NovgorodThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:47:12 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: Trump endorses Israeli control of the disputed Golan Heightshttps://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-endorses-israeli-control-of-the-disputed-golan-heights-20190322-p516f5.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pressed the US to formally recognise Israel's annexation of the land and Trump responded on Twitter.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:46:06 +0100REUTERS: Chinese president lands in Italy, set to sign Belt and Road dealhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/vROBHzii778/chinese-president-lands-in-italy-set-to-sign-belt-and-road-deal-idUKKCN1R221I
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Rome on Thursday at the start of a three-day visit during which he will sign an accord drawing Italy into his giant "Belt and Road" infrastructure plan despite U.S. opposition.<div class="feedflare">
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&quot;Once a case is over, it&#039;s not an ongoing investigation,&quot; Martin County Sheriff William Snyder told CNBC. &quot;There has to be a specific reason not to release a public record. And the fact that there is sexual activity is not an exemption&quot;Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:38:00 +0100The Guardian: Trump says US will recognize Israel's sovereignty over Golan Heightshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/trump-us-golan-heights-israel-sovereignty
<ul><li>Israel captured Golan Heights from Syria after war in 1967</li><li>Netanyahu responds on Twitter: ‘Thank you President Trump!’</li></ul><p>Donald Trump has announced that the US will recognize <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</a>’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in 1967, in a dramatic move likely to bolster <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/benjamin-netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a>’s hopes to win re-election, but which will also provoke international opposition.</p><p>Previous US administrations have treated Golan Heights as occupied Syrian territory, in line with UN security council resolutions. Trump declared his break with that policy in a tweet.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/trump-us-golan-heights-israel-sovereignty">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:37:22 +0100NEW YORK POST: Priest arrested for groping woman while administering last riteshttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/priest-arrested-for-groping-woman-while-administering-last-rites/
A Catholic priest in Texas was arrested Thursday on allegations that he groped a woman while administering last rites, police said. The Rev. Gerold Langsch, 75, of Austin, was charged with assault by contact in connection to the Oct. 5 encounter with the 60-year-old woman, who was suffering complications from diabetes. He is free on...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:36:30 +0100The Hindu International: Nirav Modi spends Holi in overcrowded U.K. jailhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/nirav-modi-spends-holi-in-overcrowded-uk-jail/article26601307.ece
He may have to share cell with another male prisoner, with little time outThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:36:05 +0100REUTERS: Ferry capsize kills 72 in Iraq's Mosul - medicshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/gEmx0HitLwE/ferry-capsize-kills-72-in-iraqs-mosul-medics-idUKKCN1R21OE
At least 72 people died when an overloaded ferry carrying families on an outing sank in the Tigris river in Mosul in northern Iraq, medical sources told Reuters on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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<p>Brendan McCarthy, 50, also carried out a tongue-splitting procedure</p><p><br> A tattooist known as Dr Evil has been handed a 40-month jail sentence after carrying out ear and nipple removals at the request of two of his customers. </p><p>Brendan McCarthy, who also carried out a tongue-splitting procedure at his studio in Wolverhampton, pleaded guilty last month to three counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/tattooist-dr-evil-jailed-for-performing-ear-and-nipple-removals">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:34:25 +0100The Guardian: Multiple failures in care of autistic woman hit by lorry, inquest findshttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/multiple-failures-care-autistic-woman-colette-mcculloch-hit-by-lorry-inquest-finds
<p>Coroner in Bedfordshire says death of Colette McCulloch was an ‘avoidable tragedy’</p><p>An inquest into the death of an autistic woman who was killed after being hit by a lorry has found multiple failures in her care at a private residential home.</p><p>The coroner described the death in 2016 of 35-year-old <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/29/colette-mcculloch-parents-win-legal-battle-over-coroner-inquest-daughter-death">Colette McCulloch</a> as “an avoidable tragedy”. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/multiple-failures-care-autistic-woman-colette-mcculloch-hit-by-lorry-inquest-finds">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:30:00 +0100(USA) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: ‘Rosie the Riveter’ Recounts Women’s World War II Servicehttps://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1791569/rosie-the-riveter-recounts-womens-world-war-ii-service/
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:29:55 +0100CNBC: Comcast has a new streaming box for cord cutters that you can get for $5 per monthhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/comcast-announces-flex-streaming-product-and-platform.html
A new Comcast device will allow its broadband-only customers to watch streaming video without an outside connected device.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:28:00 +0100The Hindu International: SmartSat software heads to spacehttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/smartsat-software-heads-to-space/article26601267.ece
Just as some aerospace start-ups are developing technologies to repair, modify or refuel satellites to prolong their lives, some satellite manufactureThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:26:41 +0100CNBC: Apple shares surge to 4-month high, as stock chart points to growing investor confidencehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/apple-shares-surge-to-4-month-high-as-stock-chart-points-to-growing-investor-confidence.html
Apple&#039;s stock rose more than 3 percent on Thursday, putting the stock on pace for its ninth positive day in the past 10 days of trading.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:26:00 +0100The Hindu International: Harry Potter studio tour expands with Gringotts Bankhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/harry-potter-studio-tour-expands-with-gringotts-bank/article26601266.ece
The elaborate set in London opens to the public on April 6Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:25:43 +0100The Hindu International: A ‘Superman’ urges Thais to votehttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/a-superman-urges-thais-to-vote/article26601262.ece
David Pfizenmaier is on a mission to boost turnout ahead of polls this weekendThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:25:15 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Ferry capsizes in Iraq's Tigris river killing 71http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/YGHbL9SeAsU/index.html
At least 71 people died, including 12 children, when an overcrowded ferry capsized in Iraq's Tigris river in Mosul during Nowruz and Mother's Day celebrations.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/YGHbL9SeAsU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:24:40 +0100The Guardian: Celebrating Purim in Manchester – in pictureshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2019/mar/21/celebrating-purim-in-manchester-in-pictures
<p>Orthodox Jewish children in fancy dress and adults take to the streets of Broughton in Greater Manchester to celebrate the annual feast of Purim, celebrated by Jewish communities around the world with parades and costume parties. Purim commemorates the defeat of Haman, the adviser to the Persian king, and his plot to massacre the Jewish people, 2,500 years ago, as recorded in the biblical book of Esther.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2019/mar/21/celebrating-purim-in-manchester-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:24:36 +0100The Hindu International: Dubai metro stations come alive with the sound of musichttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/dubai-metro-stations-come-alive-with-the-sound-of-music/article26601254.ece
The aim is to break the routine of the daily commutersThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:24:03 +0100The Hindu International: Bangladesh town barbers face fines for ‘foreign’ cutshttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/bangladesh-town-barbers-face-fines-for-foreign-cuts/article26601240.ece
Association order hung up in salonsThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:22:17 +0100REUTERS: Israel's Netanyahu thanks Trump for Golan announcementhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/0Uqwlr_8Ehk/israels-netanyahu-thanks-trump-for-golan-announcement-idUKKCN1R21ZH
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday after he said it was time to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, territory Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Middle East War.<div class="feedflare">
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A pre-med student at Northwestern University sexually assaulted an incapacitated female student after meeting her earlier that night at a soccer party, according to a report. Scott Thomas — a 20-year-old freshman from Bernardsville, New Jersey — has been charged with criminal sexual assault in the alleged attack, which took place at about 2 a.m....Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:20:14 +0100The Hindu International: Oxford dictionary adds ‘chuddies’ to listhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/oxford-dictionary-adds-chuddies-to-list/article26601238.ece
The word became popular after it was used as part of a catchphrase in a British TV showThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:19:52 +0100REUTERS: Ethiopia says U.S., EU, French teams helping analyse crash black boxeshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/f2fNJF_cOMs/ethiopia-says-u-s-eu-french-teams-helping-analyse-crash-black-boxes-idUKKCN1R21ZB
Ethiopian experts have begun analysing the cockpit voice and flight data recorders, the so-called black boxes, of doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 alongside international investigators, Ethiopia's Ministry of Transport said on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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Prosecutors in Berlin and the neighboring German state of Brandenburg are interviewing former members of East Germany’s secret police about the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing, according to officials and media reports.
All 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 ?blew up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on its way to New York and Detroit on Dec. 21, 1988.
Berlin prosecutors said Thursday on Twitter they have received a request for assistance from Scottish authorities “on the basis of which several alleged Stasi employees are questioned, including in Berlin.”
German news agency dpa reported that prosecutors in Frankfurt an der Oder, 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of Berlin, received similar requests. The ex-Stasi agents are considered possible witnesses, not suspects.
According to German daily Bild, which first reported the story, almost 20 former Stasi employees are being sought for questioning in the Lockerbie bombing.
Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the bombing in 2001. He maintained his innocence until death in 2012, and Al-Megrahi’s family is seeking to overturn his murder conviction, citing concerns about the evidence.
Bild reported that Scottish prosecutors are investigating whether the Stasi agents may have been part of a plot to bomb the plane, which was ordered by then-Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Most of those questioned were members of the Stasi’s Department 22, which had contacts with extremist groups in Western Europe, the paper reported.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:17:01 +0100CNBC: A key recession indicator just did something that hasn't happened in 12 yearshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/a-key-recession-indicator-just-did-something-that-hasnt-happened-in-12-years.html
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell&#039;s assertion this week that the U.S. economy remains strong is facing a stern test from the bond market.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:17:00 +0100CNBC: MillerCoors sues Anheuser-Busch for controversial Bud Light Super Bowl adhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/millercoors-sues-anheuser-busch-for-its-bud-light-super-bowl-ad.html
MillerCoors filed a lawsuit Thursday against Anheuser-Busch InBev, claiming that its rival&#039;s Bud Light ad shown during the Super Bowl is false advertising meant to deceive customers.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:16:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Call to speed Italian citizenship for boy who made SOS callhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/call-to-speed-italian-citizenship-for-boy-who-made-sos-call/2019/03/21/eeb4bd8e-4bfc-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
The leader of Italy’s 5-Star Movement says the country should grant citizenship to a 13-year-old Egyptian boy hailed as a hero for alerting police that he and his middle school classmates had been abducted by their bus driverThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:15:33 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Putin extends condolences to Iraqi president over ferry sinking victimshttp://tass.com/politics/1049903
The death toll has reached 85, according to the mediaThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:15:21 +0100The Hindu International: Guaidó says his Chief of Staff has been detainedhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/guaid-says-his-chief-of-staff-has-been-detained/article26601197.ece
‘His Caracas residence was raided’Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:13:20 +0100The Hindu International: Italy in shock after bus hijackinghttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/italy-in-shock-after-bus-hijacking/article26601189.ece
Driver took 51 children hostage but they were all rescuedThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:12:55 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: Ferry sinks in Tigris River, killing more than 70https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/ferry-sinks-in-tigris-river-killing-more-than-70-20190322-p516f4.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
A ferry overloaded with people celebrating the Kurdish new year and Mother's Day capsized in the Tigris River near the Iraqi city of Mosul.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:12:00 +0100The Hindu International: ‘Lion Air pilots searched for the right checklist’https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/lion-air-pilots-searched-for-the-right-checklist/article26601182.ece
Report says they had airspeed issuesThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:11:32 +0100The Hindu International: 2 held for livestreaming motel guest videos using spy camerashttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/2-held-for-livestreaming-motel-guest-videos-using-spy-cameras/article26601181.ece
Illicit filming has been on the rise in South KoreaThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:11:06 +0100WASHINGTON POST: The Latest: Trump says Israel sovereign over Golan Heightshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-latest-trump-says-israel-sovereign-over-golan-heights/2019/03/21/4beb75de-4bfc-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
President Donald Trump says that it’s time to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan HeightsThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:10:59 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Ukraine, US bicker over corruption fight ahead of electionhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/ukraine-us-bicker-over-corruption-fight-ahead-of-election/2019/03/21/31830612-4bfc-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Ukraine’s top prosecutor says that the U.S. ambassador has given him a list of people who should be immune from prosecution — a claim quickly rejected by the U.S.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:10:15 +0100The Hindu International: Let people see the Mueller report: Trumphttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/let-people-see-the-mueller-report-trump/article26601166.ece
President disparages its very existenceThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:09:53 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Pompeo visits Jerusalem holy site with Israeli PM Netanyahuhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/pompeo-visits-jerusalem-holy-site-with-israeli-pm-netanyahu/2019/03/21/0863d7f2-4bfc-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
US Secretary of State Pompeo visits Jerusalem’s Western Wall with Israeli Prime Minister NetanyahuThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:09:38 +0100CNBC: More floodwaters rising in storm-ravaged US Midwesthttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/more-floodwaters-rising-in-storm-ravaged-us-midwest.html
Midwest states downstream were set on Thursday for a relentless surge of the Missouri River.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:09:00 +0100CNBC: Levi's CEO says athleisure was a 'throwdown' moment, as it looks to boost jeans sales to womenhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/levis-ceo-says-athleisure-was-a-throwdown-moment-for-denim-market.html
Following a stronger-than-expected initial public offering, Levi Strauss&#039;s CEO Chip Bergh is only expecting the beloved denim retailer to grow.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:08:00 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): More than 1 million people sign petition to cancel Brexithttp://tass.com/world/1049900
The Petitions Committee at the House of Commons reported that it hit the absolute record in the speed of signature collectionThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:06:18 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Expert: Ukrainian prosecutor’s ‘untouchables’ spat with US envoy set up with Poroshenkohttp://tass.com/world/1049858
According to Ruslan Bortnik, Kiev aggravated relations with ex-President Obama’s faction of the US establishment in order to try to strengthen relations with Trump’s current administrationThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:06:06 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Eurostar passengers told to avoid travel until Aprilhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/eurostar-passengers-told-to-avoid-travel-until-april/2019/03/21/65bce998-4be3-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
French customs officials are trying to demonstrate what could happen after Brexit.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:04:41 +0100BBC: US to recognise Golan as Israeli territoryhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-47657843
President Trump tweets that US will recognise Israeli sovereignty over Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967 warThu, 21 Mar 2019 18:03:57 +0100REUTERS: German politicians split over bankrolling Deutsche Bank mergerhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/L3HY7XaNcdI/german-politicians-split-over-bankrolling-deutsche-bank-merger-idUKKCN1R21YD
A political rift has emerged in Berlin over whether Germany should put its financial muscle behind a merger of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, politicians and officials said, complicating a bid to create Europe’s third-largest bank and fund it.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~4/L3HY7XaNcdI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:03:53 +0100The Guardian: Labor pledges $60m to divert vulnerable borrowers from payday lendershttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/22/labor-pledges-60m-to-divert-vulnerable-borrowers-from-payday-lenders
<p>Plan would enable 76,800 low-cost loans each year to those in financial hardship</p><p>Labor has pledged $60m for financial services that divert vulnerable borrowers from high-interest payday lenders.</p><p>The policy picks up on the <a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Economics/Creditfinancialservices/Report">recommendation of a Senate inquiry</a> to expand <a href="https://nils.com.au/">no interest loans schemes</a> to prevent low-income Australians being plunged into a cycle of debt due to unexpected expenses such as medical procedures and broken household appliances.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/22/labor-pledges-60m-to-divert-vulnerable-borrowers-from-payday-lenders">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:00:17 +0100REUTERS: Trump says time for U.S. to recognise Israeli sovereignty over Golanhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/x6przwCHmfw/trump-says-time-for-u-s-to-recognise-israeli-sovereignty-over-golan-idUKKCN1R21Y1
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday it was time to back Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, territory Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Middle East War.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~4/x6przwCHmfw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:59:38 +0100CNBC: Stock market's fourth-quarter crash and comeback draws comparisons on Wall Street to '87, '95https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/stock-markets-fourth-quarter-crash-and-comeback-draws-comparisons-on-wall-street-to-87-95.html
Right now, Wall Street is spending a lot of time debating what year from the past looks most like 2019 – and what that means for the market outlook.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:59:00 +0100CNBC: Russia moves 20 hypersonic missiles to testing site, signaling another milestone for the weaponhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/russia-moves-20-hypersonic-missiles-to-testing-site-signaling-another-milestone.html
Nearly 20 Russian missiles that the U.S. is currently unable to defend against were recently moved to a military testing site, according to people who have direct knowledge of American intelligence reports.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:59:00 +0100REUTERS: Brazil's ex-President Temer arrested, threatening fiscal reformhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/K6Jtlbpnr2s/brazils-ex-president-temer-arrested-threatening-fiscal-reform-idUKKCN1R21N2
Brazil's former President Michel Temer was arrested on Thursday in an investigation of alleged graft in the construction of a nuclear power plant, prosecutors said, threatening to delay debate over the government's ambitious fiscal reforms.<div class="feedflare">
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Rescue workers plucked more survivors from trees and roofs to safety on Thursday, a week after a cyclone ripped through southern Africa and triggered devastating floods that have killed hundreds of people and displaced hundreds of thousands.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~4/XslzMLJY1BM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:56:51 +0100CNBC: This was fitness star Kayla Itsines' sentimental first splurgehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/bbg-sweat-fitness-influencer-kayla-itsines-first-big-splurge.html
&quot;You give back.&quot;Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:56:00 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Lion Air Crash Families Say They Were Pressured to Sign No-Suit Dealhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/world/asia/lion-air-crash-families-lawsuits.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
After the new 737 Max 8 jet went down in Indonesia, relatives of the victims say the airline is trying to buy their silence with a deal that also protected Boeing.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:53:41 +0100CNBC: Dwayne Johnson just dropped his latest Under Armour ad campaign for Project Rockhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/dwayne-johnson-just-dropped-his-latest-project-rock-ad-campaign.html
Dwayne Johnson&#039;s &quot;Bend Boundaries&quot; collection launched Thursday with a series of videos showing Johnson working out in his gym.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:52:00 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russian Defense Ministry plans to buy over 100 Il-76MD-90A planes before 2030http://tass.com/defense/1049897
This is the main aircraft in Defense Ministry’s plans, the deputy prime minister saidThu, 21 Mar 2019 17:51:05 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Rejecting Asylum Claim, U.K. Quotes Bible to Say Christianity Is Not ‘Peaceful’https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/world/europe/britain-asylum-seeker-christianity.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
An Iranian asylum seeker said he converted from Islam to Christianity because it was a “peaceful” religion. The Home Office used Bible verses about vengeance as a basis to deny the claim.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:50:46 +0100The Guardian: Facebook stored hundreds of millions of passwords unprotectedhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/21/facebook-admits-passwords-unprotected
<p>Company admits to mistake and says it has no evidence of abuse – but the risk was huge</p><p>Facebook mistakenly stored “hundreds of millions” of passwords in plaintext, unprotected by any encryption, the company has admitted.</p><p>The mistake, which led to user passwords being kept in Facebook’s internal servers in an insecure way, affects “hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users”, according to the social networking site. Facebook Lite is a version of Facebook created for use in nations where mobile data is unaffordable or unavailable.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/21/facebook-admits-passwords-unprotected">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:50:40 +0100REUTERS: FBI not properly assessing potential U.S. maritime terrorism threats - reporthttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/V-8Z5O-KU_M/fbi-not-properly-assessing-potential-u-s-maritime-terrorism-threats-report-idUKKCN1R21X5
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is not taking appropriate steps to review and assess potential maritime terrorism risks facing U.S. sea ports, the Justice Department's internal watchdog has found.<div class="feedflare">
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The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft reveals how he learns from books most effectively.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:47:00 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: British politicians advised to take taxis home amid fears of Brexit violencehttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/T5XpcxSSO-Y/index.html
British Members of Parliament have been advised to take taxis home, over fears that they could be attacked by members of the public over the handling of Brexit.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/T5XpcxSSO-Y" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:44:29 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Karadzic trial shows bias and politicization of UN tribunal — Russian Foreign Ministryhttp://tass.com/politics/1049895
Earlier, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague has increased Karadzic’s sentence to life in prisonThu, 21 Mar 2019 17:43:11 +0100The Guardian: Iraq ferry sinking: more than 70 people drown in Mosulhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/iraq-ferry-sinking-people-killed-mosul-tigris-river
<p>Victims were mostly women and children celebrating Kurdish new year, say officials</p><p>At least 71 people have drowned after a ferry sank in the Tigris River near Mosul, Iraq.</p><p>Col Hussam Khalil, the head of the Civil Defense Corps in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh, said the incident occurred on Thursday while scores of people – mostly women and children – were celebrating Nowruz, which marks the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/in-praise-of-nowruz">Kurdish new year</a> and the arrival of spring.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/iraq-ferry-sinking-people-killed-mosul-tigris-river">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:38:37 +0100CNBC: Suze Orman: If you get a tax refund, you're 'making one of the biggest mistakes out there'https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/suze-orman-getting-a-tax-refund-means-youre-making-a-big-mistake.html
That refund check may seem exciting, says Orman, but it&#039;s actually a red flag.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:38:00 +0100BBC: Christchurch shootings: How the haka unifies New Zealand in mourninghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47648393
What does the Maori haka dance mean, and how is it linked to mourning the Christchurch victims?Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:31:28 +0100CNBC: Supreme Court case unites business, labor and immigration groups — but some see conservative attackhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/supreme-court-case-set-for-argument-unites-unusual-coalition.html
The case involves a Marine veteran who is demanding that the Department of Veterans Affairs provide him with retroactive disability payments for post-traumatic stress disorder he developed while serving in brutal battles in Vietnam.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:30:00 +0100The Guardian: Canada: 'Much more to be told' on Trudeau scandal, says minister who quithttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/canada-trudeau-scandal-snc-lavalin-jane-philpott
<p>Jane Philpott, who resigned in protest earlier this month, hints at more pain for embattled PM and says Canadians deserve the truth</p><p>A Canadian cabinet minister who had quit in protest over the government’s handling of a corruption scandal said she and others had more to say about the matter, indicating more pain to come for embattled prime minister <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/justin-trudeau">Justin Trudeau</a>.</p><p>Trudeau has been on the defensive since February over allegations <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/27/canada-trudeau-snc-lavalin-jody-wilson-raybould">top officials working for him leaned on the former justice minister</a> Jody Wilson-Raybould to ensure construction firm SNC-Lavalin avoided a corruption trial.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/canada-trudeau-scandal-snc-lavalin-jane-philpott">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:29:49 +0100REUTERS: Anti-graft campaigner tipped to win Slovakia run-off votehttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/6DNI-c3mRpM/anti-graft-campaigner-tipped-to-win-slovakia-run-off-vote-idUKKCN1R21BF
Anti-graft campaigner Zuzana Caputova could win 60.5 percent of votes in Slovakia's presidential election run-off, an opinion poll showed on Thursday, an outcome that would stand in contrast to the rise of populist, nationalist politicians across Europe.<div class="feedflare">
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The ferry, carrying Iraqis celebrating the Kurdish New Year, sank in the Tigris River near Mosul.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:28:44 +0100CNBC: If you invested $1,000 in General Motors in 2012, here's how much you would have nowhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/if-you-put-1000-dollars-in-gm-in-2012-heres-how-much-youd-have-now.html
The automaker &quot;delivered a strong year of earnings in a highly volatile environment in 2018,&quot; says CEO Mary Barra.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:26:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Swiss police arrest woman, 75, over fatal stabbing of childhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/swiss-police-arrest-woman-75-over-fatal-stabbing-of-child/2019/03/21/a00a22ac-4bf5-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Police in the northwestern Swiss city of Basel say they have arrested a 75-year-old woman on suspicion of killing a 7-year-old boy on the streetThu, 21 Mar 2019 17:23:14 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russia’s Andrei Arshavin named among 34 ambassadors for 2020 UEFA Euro Cuphttp://tass.com/sport/1049887
The Russian forward is the three-time champion of Russia, the holder of Russia’s 2008 Super Cup, the Cup of the 2003 Premier League , the Cup of UEFA (2008) and the Super Cup of UEFA in 2008Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:21:48 +0100The Guardian: Macron: UK heading for no-deal Brexit if MPs reject May's planhttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/21/no-deal-brexit-emmanuel-macron-theresa-may-mps
<p>French president’s warning comes as Theresa May set to ask EU leaders for extension</p><p>Emmanuel Macron has warned Britain is heading for a no-deal Brexit unless the House of Commons ratifies the withdrawal agreement negotiated with Brussels.</p><p>The stark choice for MPs was laid out by the French president shortly before the 27 EU heads of state and government listened to an appeal by Theresa May for a three-month Brexit delay.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/21/no-deal-brexit-emmanuel-macron-theresa-may-mps">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:20:26 +0100Voice of Europe: Iran Supreme Leader Calls European Trade Mechanism 'Bitter Joke'https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-supreme-leader-calls-european-trade-mechanism-bitter-joke-/4841227.html
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called a trade mechanism launched by European countries to bypass renewed US sanctions a "bitter joke" on Thursday, in a speech aired by state TV.
"This financial channel they recently set up resembles a joke, a bitter joke," Khamenei told a thousands-strong congregation at a shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad, where he speaks every year to mark Iranian new year.
Britain, France and Germany launched the special payment system, called INSTEX — the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges — in late January after President Donald Trump abruptly quit the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers in May last year.
The three countries were the European signatories to the deal, also signed by the US, Russia and China, that curbed Tehran's nuclear ambitions in return for sanctions relief.
London, Paris and Berlin launched the device in the hope it will help save the deal by allowing Tehran to keep trading with European companies despite Washington reimposing sanctions.
"The difference between what they are obligated to do and what they are proposing is as far as the earth is from the sky," Khamenei said.
"We should completely forego [any hope] of help or cooperation from westerners in strengthening our economy, we shouldn't wait for them," he added, calling western politicians "savages."
"Once again the Europeans have stabbed us in the back, they have betrayed us," Khamenei said.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:20:06 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Glacier melt on Everest exposes bodies of dead climbershttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/b7ReSuNL_QI/index.html
Mount Everest expedition operators are finding increasing numbers of climbers' dead bodies on the world's highest peak as high temperatures melt glaciers and snow.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/b7ReSuNL_QI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:18:16 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Revolutionary group that raided North Korean Embassy establishes contact with FBIhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/revolutionary-group-that-raided-north-korean-embassy-establishes-contact-with-fbi/2019/03/21/e8905beb-40de-4bc3-a0d5-b8319d5e91bc_story.html
The decision to engage federal authorities thrusts the U.S. intelligence community into a sensitive international investigation.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:17:52 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russian space firm ready to boost Soyuz-MS production to 5 spacecraft a yearhttp://tass.com/science/1049886
Currently, all of Russia’s manned launches are carried out aboard Soyuz-MS spacecraftThu, 21 Mar 2019 17:17:06 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Kalashnikov’s revenue up 280% in 2018http://tass.com/defense/1049889
The revenue totaled $267 millionThu, 21 Mar 2019 17:13:18 +0100CNBC: Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Levi Strauss, Biogen, Micron & morehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/stocks-making-the-biggest-moves-midday-levi-strauss-biogen-micron.html
Names on the move ahead of the open.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:13:00 +0100REUTERS: Aid workers fight clock to rescue more African cyclone victims, death toll jumpshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/PF82ek6qm4k/aid-workers-fight-clock-to-rescue-more-african-cyclone-victims-death-toll-jumps-idUKKCN1R20M8
Rescue workers plucked more survivors from trees and roofs to safety on Thursday, a week after a cyclone ripped through southern Africa and triggered devastating floods that have killed hundreds of people and displaced hundreds of thousands.<div class="feedflare">
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Several workers were trapped after buildings were knocked down by the shockwaveThu, 21 Mar 2019 17:08:11 +0100REUTERS: At least 72 killed as overloaded ferry sinks in Iraq's Tigris riverhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/2iVKSV1TJC4/at-least-72-killed-as-overloaded-ferry-sinks-in-iraqs-tigris-river-idUKKCN1R21OE
At least 72 people died when an overloaded ferry sank in the Tigris river near Mosul in Iraq, medical sources told Reuters on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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Israel said on Thursday a U.N. report critical of its use of lethal force during Palestinian protests on the Gaza border was biased and should have included a demand that the enclave's dominant Hamas group take action to stop anti-Israeli violence.<div class="feedflare">
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<p>Exclusive: councils complain government’s backing amounts to ‘completely hollow words’</p><p>﻿New powers for councils to step in and fix privately-owned towers covered in dangerous Grenfell-style cladding are proving largely useless, leaving tens of thousands of leaseholders living in fear and facing mounting multimillion-pound bills, the Guardian has learned.</p><p>As few as one in 10 of the affected private tower blocks clad in similar ACM panels to those which spread the fire at Grenfell Tower can actually be tackled by councils, according to Manchester city council, which has been struggling to persuade the owners of 15 apartment blocks to take urgent safety action.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/councils-powers-to-remove-grenfell-style-cladding-useless">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:05:14 +0100CNBC: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers become the first NFL team to hire two full-time female coacheshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/tampa-bay-buccaneers-are-1st-nfl-team-to-hire-2-full-time-female-coaches.html
&quot;Sometimes, all you need is the right organization to offer up the opportunity.&quot;Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:04:00 +0100Voice of Europe: Germany: Michael Jackson Exhibit Opens Amid Revived Abuse Allegationshttps://www.voanews.com/a/germany-michael-jackson-exhibit-opens-amid-revived-abuse-allegations/4841198.html
An exhibition of art about Michael Jackson is opening in Germany amid fresh controversy over the singer's alleged abuse of children.
Curator Nicholas Cullinan said Thursday the show at Bonn's Bundeskunsthalle was conceived long before the recent broadcast of HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland," which details Jackson's alleged molestation of two boys.
Some radio stations in North America have since stopped playing Jackson's music. Jackson died in 2009.
The show previously was exhibited in London.
Cullinan said it "was never celebratory. It's about the complexity of Michael Jackson, how he means very different things to many very different people."
Ellen Heimes, who heads a local branch of Germany's largest child protection organization, said the show should prompt a debate about spotting and preventing child abuse.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:01:35 +0100REUTERS: World wants answers from Indonesia and Ethiopia crasheshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/mOQI4WlkKow/world-wants-answers-from-indonesia-and-ethiopia-crashes-idUKKCN1R20CY
Indonesian investigators described the panic of pilots grappling with airspeed and altitude problems in the last moments of their doomed Lion Air flight, as comparisons mounted to a disaster in Ethiopia and authorities queued up to question Boeing.<div class="feedflare">
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The Islamic State barely has any territory left in Syria. So how is it able to keep staging attacks across the country?Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:00:15 +0100The Guardian: 'We are modern slaves': Mdou Moctar, the Hendrix of the Saharahttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/21/we-are-modern-slaves-mdou-moctar-the-hendrix-of-the-sahara
<p>His first guitar was made from wood and bicycle parts and his first songs were shared via Bluetooth in the desert. But the Niger musician has become international – and is taking aim at France</p><p>How do you even dream of making music when your family and religious leaders disapprove, when you live at the edge of the Sahara desert, and you cannot afford an instrument?</p><p>It helps that the Tuareg musician <a href="https://mdoumoctar.bandcamp.com/" title="">Mdou Moctar</a>, from Niger, is not easily discouraged. Unable to acquire a guitar, he made one out of a piece of wood with brake wires from an old bicycle for strings, and taught himself to play in secret. “I was from a religious family and music was not welcome, but I would go and listen to local musicians and dream of being like them,” the 32-year-old singer-songwriter says over the phone while on tour in the US.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/21/we-are-modern-slaves-mdou-moctar-the-hendrix-of-the-sahara">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:00:12 +0100BBC: Harvard sued by 'descendant of slave for profiting off of photos'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47656230
The university continues to profit off of photos that belong to descendants of slaves, a lawsuit claims.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:59:21 +0100The Hindu International: May’s attack on MPs draws criticisms from across political spectrumhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/mays-attack-on-mps-draws-criticisms-from-across-political-spectrum/article26600394.ece
Prime Minister had accused Parliament of doing “everything possible to avoid making a choice” on Britain’s exit from the European UnionThu, 21 Mar 2019 16:58:52 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Moldovan president urges new parliament to respect Russian language, other ethnic groupshttp://tass.com/society/1049879
The previous parliament sought to strip the Russian language of its special status as a language of international communication in MoldovaThu, 21 Mar 2019 16:58:26 +0100REUTERS: France says nuclear deal no blank cheque for rights abuses in Iranhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/_7-bN0Yvtys/france-says-nuclear-deal-no-blank-cheque-for-rights-abuses-in-iran-idUKKCN1R21RI
France told Iran on Thursday that European efforts to keep a nuclear deal alive did not mean Tehran had a blank cheque to violate the human rights of its citizens, after lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh received a long prison sentence.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~4/_7-bN0Yvtys" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:56:26 +0100The Guardian: John McCain's daughter issues rare public statement condemning Trumphttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/john-mccain-daughter-bridget-trump-attack-response-latest
<p>Bridget McCain responds to Trump’s remarks about her father: ‘You are a child in the most important role the world knows’</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/mar/21/donald-trump-latest-news-live-us-politics-campus-free-speech-order-joe-biden">Follow the latest US politics updates live</a></li></ul><p>John McCain’s daughter Bridget hit back Thursday against Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on her father by calling the president “a child”.</p><p>McCain, the late Arizona senator’s youngest daughter, who rarely speaks publicly, pleaded with Trump for decency after he <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/20/donald-trump-john-mccain-attack">went after</a> John McCain during an appearance in Ohio.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/john-mccain-daughter-bridget-trump-attack-response-latest">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:55:14 +0100CNBC: Trump ally Roger Stone's legal fund hits $100,000 goal — and another crowdfunding page is cominghttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/trump-ally-roger-stones-crowdfunding-page-hits-100000-target.html
Stone&#039;s recent gag order in his case lodged by Mueller &quot;inspired a steady rain of support,&quot; former Trump political advisor Michael Caputo said.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:55:00 +0100The Guardian: UK heading for no-deal Brexit if MPs reject agreement, says Macron – videohttps://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/mar/21/uk-heading-for-no-deal-brexit-if-mps-reject-agreement-says-macron-video
<p>The French president has said that if British MPs reject Theresa May’s withdrawal deal next week, it will ‘guide everybody to a no-deal [Brexit]’. Emmanuel Macron also said the EU and the UK could agree a technical extension if the House of Commons were to vote in favour</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/mar/21/uk-heading-for-no-deal-brexit-if-mps-reject-agreement-says-macron-video">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:53:30 +0100WASHINGTON POST: The Latest: Guaido: ‘Maduro doesn’t dare to jail me’https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/the-latest-guaido-maduro-doesnt-dare-to-jail-me/2019/03/21/4c025e1c-4bf1-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Opposition leader Juan Guaido says the Venezuelan government is weak and doesn’t “dare” to detain himThu, 21 Mar 2019 16:52:16 +0100CNBC: Restaurant Brands CEO: Burger King's $5 coffee subscription will help it win the breakfast warshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/restaurant-brands-ceo-burger-kings-5-coffee-subscription-will-help-it-win-the-breakfast-wars.html
For Burger King, its new $5 monthly coffee subscription is a way to get customers into their stores in the morning to check out their other breakfast offerings, Restaurant Brands CEO Jose Cil said.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:51:00 +0100REUTERS: Venezuela's Guaido says arrest of aide shows Maduro's weaknesshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/dBnPkzmXyWM/venezuelas-guaido-says-arrest-of-aide-shows-maduros-weakness-idUKKCN1R21QC
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said arrest of his chief of staff by intelligence agents earlier on Thursday was a sign of weakness by President Nicolas Maduro's government.<div class="feedflare">
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PUERTO RICO — In the dark and isolating days after Hurricane Maria, people across Puerto Rico invented new ways to communicate: Elderly couples in need of food or water would raise a flag at their home. Neighbors created amateur security systems, banging on pots for a minute each night to mark the start of a...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:46:59 +0100NEW YORK POST: Trump to sign executive order protecting campus free speechhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/trump-to-sign-executive-order-protecting-campus-free-speech/
President Trump on Thursday is set to sign an executive order on campus free speech, ordering colleges to “support free speech” or face “very costly” consequences. An administration official said the order — part of the president’s crusade against “political correctness” — basically reinforces what most schools are already supposed to be doing by mandating...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:46:00 +0100REUTERS: At least 30 migrants believed missing after boat sinking off Libya - coastguardhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/WAKwzdCh3fY/at-least-30-migrants-believed-missing-after-boat-sinking-off-libya-coastguard-idUKKCN1R21PN
At least 30 migrants are believed to be missing after their boat sank off the western Libyan city of Sabratha this week, a coastguard spokesman said on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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An American security contractor at the center of a mysterious case roiling Haitian politics says that he and a group of fellow veterans were sent to Haiti on a mission to protect a businessman signing a contract at the country’s central bankThu, 21 Mar 2019 16:44:08 +0100NEW YORK POST: Pilots who fly for Amazon were worried about Boeing jet weeks before Texas crashhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/pilots-who-fly-for-amazon-were-worried-about-boeing-jet-weeks-before-texas-crash/
Amazon’s rapidly expanding air-cargo operation, coupled with low pay to inexperienced flight crews, led several pilots who fly for the company to predict a recent fatal crash, according to a new report. A Boeing 767 cargo jet operated by Atlas Air and contracted by Amazon crashed Feb. 23 outside Houston, killing all three people aboard....Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:43:26 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Former President Michel Temer of Brazil Is Arrestedhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/world/americas/michel-temer-arrested-prisao.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Mr. Temer, a deeply unpopular leader who governed Brazil from 2016 to 2018, has been the target of numerous corruption inquiries.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:42:28 +0100REUTERS: Mozambique death toll rises to 242 after cyclone - ministerhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/aPfyYTXxqD0/mozambique-death-toll-rises-to-242-after-cyclone-minister-idUKKCN1R20M8
Mozambique's Minister of Land and Environment Celso Correia said on Thursday the death toll has risen to 242 in the country, after a cyclone ripped through southern Africa and triggered devastating floods that have killed hundreds of people and displaced hundreds of thousands.<div class="feedflare">
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Iraqi officials say the death toll from the sinking of a river ferry overloaded with people celebrating the Kurdish new year in northern Iraq has risen to 71Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:41:15 +0100The Guardian: Two found dead on east London rail trackshttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/two-graffiti-artists-dead-east-london-rail-tracks-electrocution
<p>Police say man in his 20s and another victim have injuries consistent with electrocution</p><p>Two people have been found dead on railway tracks in east London after they were electrocuted on the line. Police are investigating whether they were graffiti artists.</p><p>The first victim’s body was so badly burned that British Transport Police (BTP) are yet to determine the sex. The other was a man in his 20s.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/two-graffiti-artists-dead-east-london-rail-tracks-electrocution">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:40:35 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Amsterdam Is to Ban Tours of the Red-Light Districthttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/world/europe/amsterdam-tours-red-light-district.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The Dutch capital will prohibit guided visits to the area in an effort to tackle overcrowding by tourists and improve working conditions for prostitutes.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:39:55 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): At least 71 killed in Iraq ferry sinkinghttp://tass.com/emergencies/1049881
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:38:03 +0100WASHINGTON POST: NGOs urge France to ban arm sales to Saudi Arabiahttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ngos-urge-france-to-ban-arm-sales-to-saudi-arabia/2019/03/21/30326972-4bef-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Twelve Yemeni and international human rights organizations called on France to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia and do more to end the war in YemenThu, 21 Mar 2019 16:37:09 +0100CNBC: Facebook employees had access to millions of user passwordshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/facebook-employees-had-access-to-millions-of-user-passwords.html
The passwords of up to 600 million users dating back to 2012 were stored as plain text on Facebook servers.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:37:00 +0100REUTERS: At least 40 killed as overloaded ferry sinks in Iraq's Tigris riverhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/zYgFxItsECk/at-least-40-killed-as-overloaded-ferry-sinks-in-iraqs-tigris-river-idUKKCN1R21OE
At least 40 people died when an overloaded ferry sank in the Tigris river near Mosul in Iraq, police and medical sources told Reuters on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~4/zYgFxItsECk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:34:49 +0100The Guardian: Ichiro Suzuki retires to ovation after sparkling 27-year baseball careerhttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/21/ichiro-suzuki-retires-baseball-mlb-japan
<ul><li>Japanese star plays final MLB game in packed Tokyo Dome</li><li>45-year-old was a 10-time All-Star and fierce competitor</li></ul><p>Ichiro Suzuki was showered with cheers and chants on Thursday night while taking his final bow in a magnificent career that lasted nearly three decades when the Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 5-4 in Tokyo.</p><p>The 45-year-old Ichiro went 0 for 4 in the second game of the Major League Baseball season, which was being played in his home country of Japan. He got a chance at a storybook ending at the jammed Tokyo Dome when he came up with two outs, a runner on second base and a tie score in the eighth inning, but grounded out. Ichiro drew a huge ovation from fans and teammates when he was pulled from right field in the bottom of the eighth inning. The noise from the sellout crowd of 45,000 diminished after his exit.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/21/ichiro-suzuki-retires-baseball-mlb-japan">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:34:37 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Iraqi official says death toll from ferry sinking in Tigris River near Mosul has risen to 71https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iraqi-official-says-death-toll-from-ferry-sinking-in-tigris-river-near-mosul-has-risen-to-71/2019/03/21/c4152a54-4bee-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Iraqi official says death toll from ferry sinking in Tigris River near Mosul has risen to 71Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:34:08 +0100REUTERS: Factbox: What we know about Boeing 737 MAX crash and what comes nexthttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/KysvVONtofc/factbox-what-we-know-about-boeing-737-max-crash-and-what-comes-next-idUKKCN1R1085
More than 300 Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 passenger jets have been grounded worldwide after two fatal crashes in the past five months in Ethiopia and Indonesia killed nearly 350 people.<div class="feedflare">
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<p>Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore have drawn the scrutiny of investigators looking into possible Russian interference in the 2016 referendum vote</p><p>Two controversial backers of the Brexit movement were guests last year at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.</p><p>Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/10/bad-boys-brexit-questions-answer-arron-banks">known as</a> the “bad boys of Brexit”, visited the Palm Beach club in April, according to a <a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20190320/not-just-cindy-yang-royals-felon-pop-stars-others-got-access-to-trumps-mar-a-lago">review by the Palm Beach Post</a> of Instagram posts tagged at the spot.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/arron-banks-andy-wigmore-brexit-supporters-trump-guests-mar-a-lago">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:31:42 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Etihad is still bleeding money. Is it time to merge with Emirates?http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/IVpNJQk_KAE/index.html
Etihad Airways has often come to the rescue of struggling airlines. Now it has serious problems of its own and may have to consider merging with its bigger neighbor to cut its losses.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/IVpNJQk_KAE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:31:13 +0100REUTERS: What we know about Boeing 737 MAX crash and what comes nexthttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/6YGZpefkdK4/what-we-know-about-boeing-737-max-crash-and-what-comes-next-idUKKCN1R1085
More than 300 Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 passenger jets have been grounded worldwide after two fatal crashes in the past five months in Ethiopia and Indonesia killed nearly 350 people.<div class="feedflare">
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Europe and Canada said they would seek their own guarantees over the safety of Boeing's 737 MAX, further complicating plans to get the aircraft flying worldwide after they were grounded in the wake of two accidents killing more than 300 people.<div class="feedflare">
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Earlier in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry said two Sukhoi-27 fighters made a B-52 bomber turn away from the Russian border over the Baltic SeaThu, 21 Mar 2019 16:31:07 +0100SKY NEWS: At least 72 people killed as overloaded ferry sinks in Iraqhttp://news.sky.com/story/ferry-sinks-in-iraq-killing-at-least-72-people-11671830
A ferry has sunk in Iraq, killing at least 72 people.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:31:00 +0100Voice of Europe: Erdogan Airs Mosque Gunman Video Ahead Visit by NZ Ministerhttps://www.voanews.com/a/erdogan-airs-mosque-gunman-video-ahead-visit-by-nz-minister/4841148.html
Turkey’s president has again screened clips of a video taken by the Christchurch mosque gunman, a day before the foreign minister of New Zealand, which is trying to stop its use, is due to visit Turkey.
Erdogan broadcast the video at an election rally Thursday in Eskisehir, central Turkey, to criticize the Turkish opposition, which he claimed “did not see the big picture” and threats against Turkey.
Erdogan has sparked outrage abroad by showing the videos at election rallies. He also triggered tensions with Australia for comments suggesting that Australians and New Zealanders with anti-Muslim views could return home in coffins.
Australia said Thursday that progress had been made on mending ties after a spokesman for Erdogan said the president’s words earlier this week were “taken out of context.”Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:30:57 +0100Voice of Europe: Pakistan Court Jails Czech Model to 8 Years for Drug Traffickinghttps://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-court-jails-czech-model-to-eight-years-for-drug-trafficking/4841146.html
A Pakistani court sentenced a Czech national to over eight years in prison, more than a year after her being arrested in the eastern city of Lahore for allegedly trafficking eight and a half kilograms of heroin.
Tereza Hluskova, a 22-year-old model, has denied the charges and announced plans to file an appeal against the decision following the court's decision on Wednesday.
"We will file an appeal against the decision because I am sure that she has a very strong case, and hopefully, god willing... she will be acquitted from the charge," her lawyer Sardar Asghar Dogar told AFP Thursday.
Hluskova was arrested in Lahore last January, with footage released by Pakistani customs officials showing authorities uncovering drugs hidden in her suitcase as she was trying to board a flight headed for the United Arab Emirates.
Footage from the court showed Hluskova breaking down and crying as her sentence was read.
Drug trafficking is considered a serious offense in Pakistan and arrests at airports with such cases are not uncommon.
Pakistan shares a long porous border with Afghanistan, which is the world's largest illicit opium producer despite a decade of costly multi-billion U.S. and international counter-narcotics programs.
Heroin continues to be trafficked from Afghanistan through Pakistan into Europe and North America.
The country is also part of the smuggling routes to Central Asian countries with the restive tribal areas on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan convenient routes for traffickers to smuggle in narcotics undetected.
The Gulf has become an increasingly important market for illicit drugs in recent years, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says, with Pakistani traffickers frequently executed in Saudi Arabia for the crime.
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:30:30 +0100NEW YORK POST: Ocasio-Cortez’s staff needed risk training after death threatshttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/ocasio-cortezs-staff-needed-risk-training-after-death-threats/
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s staff has been trained on risk assessments due to the mounting number of death threats targeting the freshman lawmaker, according to a report Thursday. Ocasio-Cortez staffers told Time magazine for a cover story on the Democratic-socialist firebrand that Capitol Police trained them how to screen visitors to identify dangerous people who might...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:29:39 +0100NEW YORK POST: Man allegedly dismembered girlfriend after accusing her of cheating, dumped body in creekhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/man-allegedly-dismembered-girlfriend-after-accusing-her-of-cheating-dumped-body-in-creek/
A South Dakota man who suspected his girlfriend of cheating on him killed her and dumped the woman’s dismembered body in a creek in rural Michigan, where two boys made the grisly find as they walked their dog, authorities said. Menominee County Sheriff Kenny Marks told reporters during a press conference Wednesday that the boys...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:28:35 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Austrian court rejects complaint by expelled Turkish imamshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/austrian-court-rejects-complaint-by-expelled-turkish-imams/2019/03/21/62bdc8fc-4bed-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Austria’s Constitutional Court has thrown out complaints by Turkish imams expelled under a 2015 law that prevents religious communities from getting funding from foreign statesThu, 21 Mar 2019 16:24:17 +0100WASHINGTON POST: At least 55 drown in Iraq after ferry carrying Mother’s Day revelers overturnshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/at-least-55-drown-in-iraq-after-ferry-carrying-mothers-day-revelers-overturns/2019/03/21/b3c07280-4be9-11e9-b871-978e5c757325_story.html
It was the latest setback for Mosul, a city that has struggled to rebuild after the bloody 2017 battle against the Islamic State.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:23:13 +0100REUTERS: Fighting against the clock, aid workers rescue more victims of African cyclonehttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/8AcXssc2nto/fighting-against-the-clock-aid-workers-rescue-more-victims-of-african-cyclone-idUKKCN1R20M8
Rescue workers plucked more survivors from trees and roofs to safety on Thursday, a week after a cyclone ripped through southern Africa and triggered devastating floods that have killed hundreds of people and displaced hundreds of thousands.<div class="feedflare">
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Brazil's former President Michel Temer was arrested on Thursday in an investigation of alleged graft in the construction of nuclear plant Angra 3, prosecutors told Reuters, rattling the political class and threatening to delay a major pension reform.<div class="feedflare">
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Boeing Co will mandate a previously optional cockpit warning light as part of a forthcoming software update to the 737 MAX fleet that was grounded in the wake of two fatal crashes, two officials briefed on the matter said Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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Police arrested Temer in Sao Paolo on charges that include wrongdoing while in office.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:18:00 +0100Voice of Europe: UN: Afghan Peace Talks Offer Glimmer of Hopehttps://www.voanews.com/a/un-afghan-peace-talks-offer-glimmer-of-hope/4841078.html
A report to the U.N. Human Rights Council says nascent peace talks in Afghanistan offer a glimmer of hope to a country that has been at war for decades.
The United Nations said 2018 was a particularly deadly year in the war between the government of Afghanistan and Taliban insurgents. It said nearly 11,000 civilians were killed and injured, including 927 children, the highest number since 2009. The U.N. blamed the Taliban and other terrorist groups for most of the casualties.
Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Andrew Gilmour said, with the exception of Islamic State in Afghanistan, all parties to the conflict appear to be taking measures to mitigate harm to civilians. But he said additional concrete steps are needed.
He welcomed the Afghan government's proposal last year for unconditional peace talks with the Taliban, saying this offers a glimmer of hope for peace.
"The country witnessed a large-scale civic movement, demanding that the … armed groups renounce violence and engage in peace negotiations," he added. "Civil society and women's groups also began mobilizing around human and women's rights concerns, pressing for the inclusion and meaningful participation of women in any peace process."
That is unlikely to happen as the Afghan government has been cut out of the peace talks that began in the last quarter of 2018 between the United States and the Taliban.
The militant group refuses to negotiate with the Afghan government, which it considers illegitimate.
Afghan leaders are furious at not being included in the peace negotiations. They accuse the Afghan-born American diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad, who leads the talks, of blocking them from playing a role in planning their future. The U.S. government rejects the accusation.
Gilmour made no mention of the claim. Instead, he weighed in on the importance of the talks to ensure human rights gains made by Afghans. He said no compromises must be made on issues of equality, non-discrimination, women's rights and the criminalization of torture.
Under Taliban rule in the 1990s, women and girls were denied their human rights. They were forced to wear the burqa and be under the guardianship of a male. They were banned from going to school, to work, and engaging in politics.
Afghan first secretary and Charge d'affairs Hamid Formuli said his country is committed to upholding and protecting women's rights. In response to criticism from Gilmour, he said the Afghan government has undertaken measures to prevent and combat violence against women.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:15:20 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Student praised for calling police as driver torches school bushttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/3-zAmcJOHto/index.html
Italian police say a quick-thinking student hid himself and called authorities when a school bus carrying 51 children was hijacked and set on fire by its driver.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/3-zAmcJOHto" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:13:48 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russian defense ministry invites NATO leadership to Moscow security conferencehttp://tass.com/defense/1049857
The eighth Moscow Conference on International Security is set to be held on April 23-25Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:07:13 +0100CNBC: Levi Strauss shares open at $22.22 in IPO, as jean giant makes return to the public markethttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/levi-strauss-shares-open-at-22point22-in-ipo.html
Blue jeans giant Levi Strauss &amp; Co began trading on the New York Stock Exchange at $22.22 a share, after having priced its initial public offering at $17 a share the night prior.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:07:00 +0100Voice of Europe: EU Parliament Urged to Strip ExxonMobil Lobbyists of Access Badgeshttps://www.voanews.com/a/eu-parliament-urged-to-strip-exxonmobil-lobbyists-of-access-badges/4841118.html
The European Parliament faced calls Thursday to strip ExxonMobil lobbyists of their access badges after the US oil giant missed the assembly's first hearing into claims it knowingly misled the public on climate change.
Greens deputy Molly Scott Cato told the hearing in Brussels she would formally make the request later Thursday to deny ExxonMobil its six registered parliament access badges.
Activists and scientists told the hearing that ExxonMobil has for decades misled the public about the threat climate change poses to the world, comparing it the tobacco lobby's past campaign.
Under parliamentary rules, Cato said, "lobbyists shall have their access badges denied" when they refuse without good reason to comply with a formal summons to attend a committee hearing or inquiry.
"I believe this provides us with grounds we need to withdraw Exxon's lobby badges," the British MEP said, adding she would write a letter to that effect later Thursday.
Her call was supported by MEP Eleonora Evi, who sits on the petition and environment committees that hosted the first EU public hearing into Exxon's approach to climate change.
In a letter dated Wednesday, ExxonMobile said the oil company is "constrained from participating because of ongoing climate litigation in the United States."
It said it was concerned that public commentary, including at the Brussels hearing, "could prejudice those pending proceedings," according to a copy obtained by AFP.
Geoffrey Supran, a Harvard University researcher, told the panel that Exxon has known since 1959 that fossil fuel burning "was sufficient to melt the ice cap and submerge New York" but yet publicly cast doubt on the threat for years.
A peer-reviewed study of nearly 200 documents spanning decades and co-authored by Supran found that four-fifths of scientific studies and internal memos acknowledged global warming is real and caused by humans.
At the same time, a similar proportion of hundreds of paid editorials in major US newspapers over the same period cast deep doubt on these widely accepted facts, according to the study published last year.
"The most fundamental thing this [Brussels] hearing does is start to put the evidence on record," Supran told AFP.
"It also adds momentum and precedent to calls for US Congress and other governments to hold similar hearings into what Exxon and the entire fossil fuel industry knew and did about climate change," he said.
In 2017, the European Parliament decided to deny access to Monsanto executives and lobbyists after the US agro giant turned down an invitation to a hearing over claims Monsanto influenced scientific research on a weedkiller's safety.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:06:48 +0100BBC: France car thieves lured to police stationhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47651712
Two men were lured to a police station by a man whose car they were trying to steal north of Paris.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:06:40 +0100NEW YORK POST: Man faces felony charges after getting caught with 216 Venus flytrapshttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/man-faces-felony-charges-after-getting-caught-with-216-venus-flytraps/
Now, he&#8217;s the one who&#8217;s trapped. A North Carolina man was busted on felony charges over the weekend after authorities found him with 216 Venus flytraps, according to local reports. Archie Lee Williams Jr., 41, of the Brunswick County town of Bolivia is accused of poaching the rare carnivorous plant, which is protected because it...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:04:54 +0100The Guardian: The Crossing review – Bai Xue's slowburn gem delivers the goodshttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/21/the-crossing-review-bai-xue
<p>This feature debut about a schoolgirl coerced into small-time smuggling is all the more powerful for shunning high drama </p><p>With this elegantly elliptical arthouse movie, Bai Xue announces herself as a cool, confident observer of a new generation of Chinese youth. There are echoes of Sofia Coppola in Bai’s directing debut, a coming-of-age story inspired by real-life criminal gangs in Hong Kong who recruit schoolkids to smuggle mobile phones into mainland China. It’s a wisp of film that never quite gathers speed or force but it gets under your skin, capturing the impulsiveness and impatience of teenagers. Others may find it a little flat or frustrating.</p><p>Huang Yao is shy 16-year-old Peipei, who’s frantically saving up for a holiday in Japan with her rich best friend Jo (Carmen Soup). Peipei commutes daily between her home in the Chinese city Shenzhen and school in Hong Kong. To make a little extra money she smuggles for a gang. It begins harmlessly enough, slipping a couple of iPhones wrapped in cling film into her school bag. If stopped by officials at the airport-style security on the metro, she can reasonably claim the phones are for personal use. As Peipei slips between worlds, Bai changes up the camera style, from handheld in busy Hong Kong to still compositions in Shenzhen.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/21/the-crossing-review-bai-xue">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:00:11 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Cyprus seeks EU intelligence access for migrant screeninghttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/cyprus-seeks-eu-intelligence-access-for-migrant-screening/2019/03/21/c9f306bc-4be9-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Cyprus’ interior minister says he has asked the European Union for access to its security intelligence network in order to better screen arriving migrantsThu, 21 Mar 2019 15:58:30 +0100Voice of Europe: UK Police Probe Attacks on 5 Mosques in Birminghamhttps://www.voanews.com/a/uk-police-probe-attacks-on-five-mosques-in-birmingham/4841108.html
A sledgehammer-wielding man was seen smashing windows at two mosques in Britain's second city Birmingham and three more have been similarly vandalized overnight, the police said Thursday.
Counter-terrorism officers are investigating attacks on the mosques in different areas in the central English city, West Midlands Police said in a statement.
The force added the incidents were "being treated as linked."
"We don't know the motive for last night's attacks," said Chief Constable Dave Thompson in a statement.
"The force and the counterterrorism unit are working side-by-side to find whoever is responsible."
Officers were first alerted in the early hours of Thursday to reports of a man smashing windows with a sledgehammer at one of the places of worship, police said.
Following reports of a similar attack at another mosque in a nearby neighborhood, officers launched targeted patrols and discovered "further damage" at two other sites.
A fifth mosque later reported that windows had been smashed.
"Forensic officers are working to identify evidence, and CCTV is being examined," the West Midlands force added.
Some 22 percent of the Birmingham population described themselves as Muslim in the 2011 census.
British national police chiefs last week announced officers were providing "reassurance patrols" around mosques in the immediate aftermath of Friday's deadly gun rampage at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Anti-racism groups have warned that Islamophobia is on the rise in Britain and spurring a spike in far-right activity in the country.
A report released last month by the Hope Not Hate charity cited a poll which found more than a third of Britons see Islam as "generally a threat to the British way of life."
In another recent incident, Mohammed Mahmoud — an imam who won praise for shielding the perpetrator of a 2017 deadly terror attack against a north London mosque — reported he was spat at and abused this week.
Mahmoud said he was targeted Monday while returning home from a solidarity event for the New Zealand massacre with other religious leaders, as well as Interior Minister Sajid Javid and London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:58:12 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Arrest order issued for ex-President Michel Temer in Brazilhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/arrest-order-issued-for-ex-president-michel-temer-in-brazil/2019/03/21/55c8040e-4be9-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
A federal judge has issued an arrest warrant for ex-President Michel Temer on corruption chargesThu, 21 Mar 2019 15:55:17 +0100REUTERS: Venezuela detains top aide to Guaido in test of Washington's supporthttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/JTZvp9qTtaI/venezuela-detains-top-aide-to-guaido-in-test-of-washingtons-support-idUKKCN1R20WR
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Thursday intelligence agents had detained his chief of staff during a pre-dawn raid, putting to the test repeated U.S. warnings that President Nicolas Maduro should not go after his opponents.<div class="feedflare">
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<p>Temer arrested as part of Operation Carwash, which led to the convictions of numerous members of Brazil’s political elite</p><p>Brazil’s former president <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/michel-temer">Michel Temer</a> – who played a key role in the 2016 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/31/dilma-rousseff-impeached-president-brazilian-senate-michel-temer">impeachment of his rival Dilma Rousseff</a> – has been arrested by federal police, according to local media.</p><p>The G1 news portal reported that Temer was arrested on Thursday morning in São Paulo as part of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/01/brazil-operation-car-wash-is-this-the-biggest-corruption-scandal-in-history">Operation Carwash</a>, the country’s largest ever corruption investigation, which led to the convictions of numerous members of Brazil’s political elite.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/brazils-former-president-michel-temer-arrested-in-corruption-investigation">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:51:43 +0100CNBC: Tesla is suing former employees and self-driving startup Zoox for allegedly taking secretshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/tesla-sues-ex-employees-and-startup-zoox-for-allegedly-taking-secrets.html
The electric car maker says former employees stole proprietary Tesla documents useful to their new employer Zoox, and used company information to try to poach other Tesla employees.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:51:00 +0100CNBC: GOP focuses on Green New Deal as it plots to retake California House seatshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/gop-makes-green-new-deal-an-issue-as-it-plots-to-retake-ca-house-seats.html
Republicans are already plotting to retake some of the California congressional seats they lost in 2018 to the Democrats, and one of the issues they&#039;re talking a lot about is the Green New Deal.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:51:00 +0100Voice of Europe: Kremlin Accuses US of Stoking Tensions by Flying Bombers Near Its Bordershttps://www.voanews.com/a/kremlin-accuses-us-of-stoking-tensions-by-flying-bombers-near-its-borders-/4841092.html
The Kremlin on Thursday complained that flights by U.S. nuclear-capable B-52 strategic bombers across the Baltic Sea near Russia's borders were creating tensions in the region, but Washington said they were needed to deter potential adversaries.
Russia's Defense Ministry said earlier on Thursday that it had scrambled two Sukhoi SU-27 fighter jets to intercept a U.S. B-52 strategic bomber which radar systems indicated was flying towards Russia's borders, albeit at a considerable distance.
The ministry said the fighter jets had returned to base after the B-52 changed course and headed in the opposite direction. It did not say when the incident occurred.
"In general, I will limit myself to only saying that of course such actions by the United States do not lead to a strengthening of an atmosphere of security and stability in the region that directly adjoins Russia's borders," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call.
"On the contrary, they create additional tensions.”
Relations between Russia and NATO have been acutely strained since Moscow's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea and its backing for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Russia accuses the Western military alliance of an unjustified military build-up near its borders, while NATO has condemned Moscow for building up its own forces in Crimea and the Black Sea region.
The U.S. embassy in Poland said that B-52 bombers had flown to Lithuania and Poland on Wednesday to conduct interoperability training with NATO forces.
It said the planes, which were temporarily based in Britain, had carried out simulated bombing runs.
"Operating out of forward locations enables collective defense capabilities ... needed to deter adversaries and assure our allies and partners," it said in a statement.
Russian media reported that a B-52 bomber was spotted close to the border with Russia's European exclave of Kaliningrad and the Leningrad region on Monday. At one point, the RBC news portal reported, the U.S. plane, which had flown from Britain, was less than 200 km (124 miles) from St. Petersburg.
Another B-52 was spotted in the Baltic region on March 16, it added.
Such flights, seen as a show of force designed to test response times and deter, are also carried out by Russia. Moscow sends its own nuclear-capable strategic bombers on similar missions, which NATO jets intercept in the same way.
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:50:40 +0100REUTERS: Islamic State claims Kabul blasts - AMAQhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/IAYikocuBiw/islamic-state-claims-kabul-blasts-amaq-idUKKCN1R21KG
Islamic state claimed responsibility for several explosions in the Afghan capital Kabul that killed six people and wounded 23, the group's news agency AMAQ said on Thursday without providing evidence of its claim.<div class="feedflare">
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The trials of the new vaccine take a lot of time, the deputy head of the Moscow City Health Department saidThu, 21 Mar 2019 15:47:40 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Rio prosecutors: Arrest warrant issued for former Brazilian President Michel Temer on corruption chargershttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/rio-prosecutors-arrest-warrant-issued-for-former-brazilian-president-michel-temer-on-corruption-chargers/2019/03/21/c82ddce6-4be7-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Rio prosecutors: Arrest warrant issued for former Brazilian President Michel Temer on corruption chargersThu, 21 Mar 2019 15:44:08 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: UK firms step up preparations for a ‘no-deal’ Brexit as PM Theresa May meets with EU leadershttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1470436/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">By PAN PYLAS | AP</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553178934942107000</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 14:29</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>LONDON: UK companies have ratcheted up their preparations for a disorderly “no-deal” Brexit as best they can over the past couple of months, the Bank of England said on Thursday.<br />With the prospect of a chaotic Brexit potentially eight days away, a survey by the central bank’s agents showed that around 80 percent of companies “judged themselves ready” for such a scenario, in which the country crashes out of the European Union with no deal and no transition to new trading arrangements with the bloc. That’s up from around 50 percent in an equivalent survey in January.<br />For decades, trading with the rest of the EU has been seamless. A disorderly Brexit could see the return of tariffs and other restrictions on trade with the EU, Britain’s main export destination.<br />To prepare, some firms have moved jobs and operations to the EU to continue to benefit from its seamless trade. Many have had to learn how to file customs declarations and adjust labels on goods. Exporters of animals are learning about health checks they will need to comply with.<br />According to the bank’s survey, however, many of those companies preparing for a “no-deal” Brexit said “there were limits to the degree of readiness that was feasible in the face of the range of possible outcomes in that scenario.”<br />There’s only so much companies can do, for example, to prepare for new tariffs and exchange rate movements.<br />Britain appears headed for a “no-deal” Brexit on March 29 if Prime Minister Theresa May fails to win parliamentary support for her withdrawal agreement with the EU.<br />She is meeting EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday in an attempt to get support for a delay to the country’s departure date to June 30. EU leaders have said a short extension would have to be conditional on her Brexit plan getting parliamentary backing and have indicated they would only be willing to back a delay to May 22, the day before elections to the European Parliament. After two heavy rejections in parliament, there are doubts as to whether she will be able to get parliamentary approval. What would happen next is uncertain.<br />European leaders, including those from France and Luxembourg, have said any extension will be granted dependent on May's deal passing a third parliamentary vote.<br />The Bank of England warned in November that the British economy could shrink by a massive 8 percent within months, though Governor Mark Carney has indicated the recession will be less savage, partly because of heightened preparedness.<br />According to the minutes of the latest meeting of the bank’s nine-member Monetary Policy Committee, at which the main interest rate was kept at 0.75 percent, rate-setters warned “Brexit uncertainties would continue to affect economic activity looking ahead, most notably business investment.”<br />Brexit uncertainty has dogged the British economy for nearly three years. In 2018, the economy grew by 1.4 percent, its lowest rate since 2012, even during what was then a global upswing. Business investment was down 3.7 percent in the fourth quarter from the year before.<br />“Business investment had now fallen in each of the past four quarters as uncertainties relating to Brexit had intensified,” the rate-setters said.<br />The survey showed uncertainty was likely to remain for months, even years, as Britain works out its long-term relationship with the EU. It said around 60 percent of UK firms in February said Brexit was one of their top three uncertainties, compared with 40 percent just after the June 2016 Brexit referendum.<br />Around 40 percent of firms expect the uncertainty to be resolved only by the end of 2019 and 20 percent anticipate it persisting into 2021 or beyond.</p>
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Rite Aid shareholders have approved the company&#039;s reverse stock split, the company announced Thursday, a move aimed at keeping the drugstore chain&#039;s shares trading on New York Stock Exchange.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:43:00 +0100CNBC: Trump wants China to raise its offer to buy US goods, sources sayhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/trump-wants-china-to-raise-its-offer-to-buy-us-goods-to-strike-a-trade-deal-sources-say.html
U.S. officials seeking a China trade deal are focused on long-term changes to that nation&#039;s economy. But President Trump wants to reduce the trade deficit and wants China to purchase more goods, according to two people briefed on discussions.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:42:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: ‘None of you is a traitor’: British Parliament speaker pushes back against May over who is to blame for Brexit messhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/worldviews/none-of-you-is-a-traitor-british-parliament-speaker-pushes-back-against-may-over-who-is-to-blame-for-brexit-mess/2019/03/21/a1e0349c-fddc-4d41-a832-bdfc2e4a709a_story.html
“The sole duty of every member of Parliament is to do what he or she thinks is right," John Bercow said.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:41:55 +0100NEW YORK POST: Mississippi governor set to sign ‘heartbeat’ abortion lawhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/mississippi-governor-set-to-sign-heartbeat-abortion-law/
MISSISSIPPI — Gov. Phil Bryant says he’s not worried about lawsuits as Mississippi prepares to enact one of the strictest abortion laws in the nation. The Republican governor is scheduled to sign a bill Thursday to outlaw most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, about six weeks into pregnancy. The New York-based Center...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:41:41 +0100Voice of Europe: Poland Snubs Russia Before World War II Commemorationhttps://www.voanews.com/a/poland-snubs-russia-before-world-war-ii-commemoration/4841076.html
Polish authorities have refused to invite a Russian delegation to a commemoration ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.
Krzysztof Szczerski, an aide to the Polish president, said Wednesday in comments carried by the Polish news agency PAP that Russia hasn’t been invited to the events in September because of its aggressive actions in Ukraine.
Russia has been slapped with various international sanctions for its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014 and ongoing support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Szczerski said the anniversary ceremonies will be held “in the company of countries with whom Poland cooperates closely now for peace that is based on the respect for international law, for sovereignty of nations and of their territory.”
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement late Wednesday that it was “bewildered” by the snub, and accused the Polish government of rewriting history to suit its political agenda.
“Despite the critical contribution of our country to defeating Hitler’s Germany and liberating Poland from Nazi invaders, there is no place for Russia there,” the statement said.
Some Polish opposition politicians voiced their disagreement over the right-wing government’s decision to snub Russia.
Former Prime Minister Leszek Miller, an ex-Communist who is now running for a seat in the European Parliament, said on Polsat TV that “it is hard to talk about World War II without mentioning the armed effort of the Soviet Union.”
“If this is going to be a sign that they are not inviting him as punishment, then the Kremlin would only shrug,” Miller said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was then the prime minister, traveled to Poland for anniversary observances 10 years ago and made a speech at the Westerplatte peninsula, in Gdansk, where the war began with Nazi Germany’s invasion Sept. 1, 1939. The visit took place despite the fact that Russia’s relations with Polish authorities of the time were tense. In an effort toward improving them, Putin and Poland’s then-prime minister, Donald Tusk, held talks.
On Sept. 17, 1939, the Soviet Red Army invaded Poland, carving it up jointly with Germany, an act that is still seen in Poland as betrayal.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:40:22 +0100BBC: Michel Temer: Brazil ex-president arrested in Riohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-47657159
Michel Temer has been arrested as part of a wide-ranging corruption investigation, local media say.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:38:36 +0100CNBC: T-Mobile just announced how it will use wireless networks to take on the cable industryhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/t-mobile-home-internet-pilot-to-provide-4g-lte-to-homes.html
T-Mobile is piloting a home web service that will provide 4G LTE braodband to homes, a step toward using 5G to offer internet everywhere.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:38:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: German Wikipedia blacked out in protest of EU copyright planhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/german-wikipedia-blacked-out-in-protest-of-eu-copyright-plan/2019/03/21/ceab6f6c-4be6-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Wikipedia’s German-language page has been blacked out in protest of a proposal to change European Union copyright rulesThu, 21 Mar 2019 15:37:10 +0100CNBC: Pinterest hires Walmart CTO ahead of IPOhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/pinterest-hires-walmart-cto-jeremy-king-ahead-of-ipo.html
An IPO and subsequent public disclosures would open the company and its underlying tech up to heightened scrutiny.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:36:00 +0100NEW YORK POST: Windows smashed at five UK mosques days after New Zealand attackhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/windows-smashed-at-five-uk-mosques-days-after-new-zealand-attack/
Windows at five Birmingham, UK mosques were shattered with a sledgehammer early Thursday, according to officials, who said counter-terrorism officers are now probing the incidents. Police received reports of the first incident on Birchfield Road around 2:30 a.m. &#8212; and then were alerted to a similar attack in Erdington about 45 minutes later, the BBC...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:34:52 +0100REUTERS: Boeing to add extra safety alarm in 737 MAX jets - FThttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/6_36LQMHafI/boeing-to-add-extra-safety-alarm-in-737-max-jets-ft-idUKKCN1R21JD
Boeing Co will install an extra safety alarm in the cockpits of all its 737 MAX aircraft after intense criticism in the wake of two fatal crashes, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~4/6_36LQMHafI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:30:24 +0100NEW YORK POST: Boeing charged extra for safety features that may have prevented crasheshttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/boeing-charged-extra-for-safety-features-that-may-have-prevented-crashes/
The crashed Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air jetliners lacked two safety features that could have helped avert the disasters because Boeing charged extra to have them installed on 737 MAX 8 planes – but the company will now make one of them standard, according to a report. Investigators still don’t know what caused the two...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:27:21 +0100The Guardian: Kachin women from Myanmar 'raped until they get pregnant' in Chinahttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/kachin-women-from-myanmar-raped-until-they-get-pregnant-in-china
<p>Women from Kachin minority are allowed to go home only if they leave baby behind, says HRW report </p><p>Burmese and Chinese authorities are turning a blind eye to a growing trade in women from Myanmar’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/29/thousands-flee-in-myanmar-amid-fighting-between-army-and-kachin-rebels">Kachin minority</a>, who are taken across the border, sold as wives to Chinese men and raped until they become pregnant, a report claims.</p><p>Some of the women are allowed to return home after they have given birth, but are forced to leave their children, according to an investigation by Human Rights Watch, titled Give Us a Baby and We’ll Let You Go.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/kachin-women-from-myanmar-raped-until-they-get-pregnant-in-china">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:26:16 +0100REUTERS: Kremlin accuses US of stoking tensions by flying bombers near its bordershttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/ESc6faTc7qk/kremlin-accuses-us-of-stoking-tensions-by-flying-bombers-near-its-borders-idUKKCN1R214T
The Kremlin on Thursday complained that flights by U.S. nuclear-capable B-52 strategic bombers across the Baltic Sea near Russia's borders were creating tensions in the region, but Washington said they were needed to deter potential adversaries.<div class="feedflare">
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Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:21:41 +0100CNBC: Oil price forecast: frothy with high likelihood of Trump tweet stormhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/oil-price-forecast-frothy-with-high-likelihood-of-trump-tweet-storm.html
Rising oil prices at the start of 2018 prompted Trump to unleash a Twitter barrage against OPEC. History looks poised to repeat itself.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:18:00 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Suspect in Utrecht shooting 'had terrorist intent'http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/plWTB8WenRA/index.html
Dutch prosecutors believe that the suspect in the Utrecht tram shooting that killed three people on Monday had a terrorist motive, but authorities are probing if this was combined with any "personal problems," according to a statement released on Thursday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/plWTB8WenRA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:15:45 +0100Voice of Europe: As Brexit Approaches, Europeans Focus on Other Worrieshttps://www.voanews.com/a/as-brexit-approaches-europeans-focus-on-other-worries/4840791.html
Max Broby waited patiently in the heart of a snaking line of Britain-bound Eurostar passengers that barely seemed to budge. The 40-year-old Dane had arrived early at the Gare du Nord train station, in northern Paris. It didn’t help.
The immediate cause: an ongoing strike by French customs agents slowing border checks in what they warn might happen when Britain leaves the European Union. But Broby, an architect with businesses in Paris and London, is focused on bigger losses.
“As a Dane, I think it’s such a sad catastrophe seeing a country sort of self-destruct like this,” he said of the Brexit turmoil roiling nearby Britain. “It seems so unnecessary, so very sad on every level.”
Slow motion process
For nearly three years, Europeans have been watching the chaotic Brexit process unfold with a mix of indifference, exasperation and, to a lesser extent, alarm.
While every twist and turn in the tortured negotiations has grabbed British headlines, most other European media have covered the process only sporadically, concentrating on concerns closer to home. Indeed, a Euronews poll released in January found nearly one-third of French and Italians thought Brexit had already happened.
Only now, as the official May 29 Brexit deadline approaches, are many Europeans beginning to focus — sort of — on what that might mean. And any sense of impending change is diluted by chances EU leaders meeting in Brussels Thursday and Friday may grant Britain a delay.
“People just have other priorities,” said analyst Larissa Brunner, of the European Policy Centre in Brussels. “It’s seen as a kind of isolated issue of the British shooting themselves in the foot, with limited consequences for the rest of Europe. Whereas something like the migration crisis affects people’s everyday life.”
Brexit fallout
Still, the Brexit process has nonetheless permeated European mindsets in sometimes subtle ways. Analysts cite a modest rise in public support for the EU. And some populist parties are toning down their anti-EU rhetoric.
France’s National Rally leader Marine Le Pen, for example, no longer talks about a French-style Frexit, or even leaving the euro currency zone. Italy’s populist government is similarly silent. And while governments in Hungary and Poland continue to sharply criticize the EU, the populations of both countries are strongly pro-European.
“I think a lot of Europeans now see how difficult it is to achieve Brexit from the British perspective, and are a lot more cautious” about wanting to follow suit,” said Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, head of the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Paris office.
Peace, democracy — bureaucracy
Still there are few Europeans loudly cheering the EU on. Many dismiss the bloc and its executive body as an overly bureaucratic and annoying roadblock in their daily lives.
While the majority give the EU high marks for promoting peace, democracy and prosperity, they also consider it inefficient and intrusive, and lacking understanding about the needs of its citizens, according to a Pew Research Center survey, released this week.
At the Gare du Nord, linking France to Britain and other northern destinations, French Eurostar passenger Dianna Hamadache said she understood pro-Brexit sentiments.
“We French like to keep our identity, just like Britain,” she said. While considering herself moderately pro-European, Hamadache nonetheless blames the European Union for deepening French debts and indirectly contributing to the yellow vest protest movement over high living costs.
“Brexit is a bad idea,” countered Jerome Huijsing from the Netherlands, before heading for an Amsterdam-bound train — with no line, thanks to Europe’s passport-fee Schengen zone. “We Europeans have lots of advantages. We have to pay for them, but we have them and that’s good.”
Still, such sentiments are unlikely to translate into a strong boost for pro-EU parties in May European Parliament elections, analysts say.
“Turnout is traditionally low,” said Brunner, of the European Policy Centre, “and national issues tend to dominate.”
Will EU unity last?
For a block that has squabbled over core issues like immigration and whether to forge stronger economic and defense bonds, the 27 other EU governments been surprisingly united when it comes to Brexit negotiations with the UK.
But that unity risks unraveling if it comes to a potential no-deal scenario, Brunner said.
“It would be tempting for individual member states to circumvent the European Commission and strike separate deals with Britain,” she said of the EU executive body. “Similarly I would expect much more division during trade negotiations with Britain” in which each member state would present its demands, making the final list impossibly long.
Yet paradoxically, according to some observers, the Brexit process may have been good for the European Union.
“You have a lot of people who say there’s a new dynamic — on defense, foreign policy and other issues,” said analyst Lafont Rapnouil. These may lose traction, he adds, if a divided Britain somehow remains part of the bloc — possibly via a second referendum or an indefinitely extended departure.
France and Germany also want to forge new bonds with a post-Brexit Britain in areas like defense, he added. But with political energy now consumed by a seemingly unending Brexit process, it “prevents Europe and the UK from building something together,” Lafont Rapnouil said.
Baffled by how Britain got here
At Gare du Nord, architect Broby is baffled at how Britain got into its current mess. Describing himself as an EU fan, he draws parallels with his native Denmark. Both countries negotiated with Brussels to keep key assets, including their national currency and certain veto rights that he believes answer domestic aspirations for greater autonomy.
“Obviously, the EU needs a lot of really critical reforms,” Broby said. “But surely you want to be around the table at times like this, and not burning your bridges.”Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:14:22 +0100WASHINGTON POST: German prosecutors interview ex-Stasi agents over Lockerbiehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/german-prosecutors-interview-ex-stasi-agents-over-lockerbie/2019/03/21/7b7dec1e-4be3-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Prosecutors in Berlin and the neighboring state of Brandenburg are interviewing former members of East Germany’s secret police about the 1988 Lockerbie bombingThu, 21 Mar 2019 15:13:22 +0100REUTERS: Iran will boost defence capabilities despite U.S. pressure - Khameneihttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/smCovVrGa9Y/iran-will-boost-defence-capabilities-despite-u-s-pressure-khamenei-idUKKCN1R21DV
Iran is determined to boost its defence capabilities despite mounting pressure from the United States and its allies to curb its ballistic missile programme, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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Most of those on board the vessel that sank in a tourist area near Mosul could not swim, reports say.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:12:17 +0100REUTERS: U.S. House intelligence panel holds Russia probe hearing next weekhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/n3VGmDg1cV8/u-s-house-intelligence-panel-holds-russia-probe-hearing-next-week-idUKKCN1R21I4
The House of Representatives intelligence committee said on Thursday it will hold an open hearing and an interview with Felix Sater, a former business associate of President Donald Trump, next week as part of its Russia investigation.<div class="feedflare">
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Original artifacts from Tutankhamun’s tomb are on display in Paris in an exhibit celebrating the centenary of the discovery of the most famous pharaoh’s treasuresThu, 21 Mar 2019 15:09:54 +0100CNBC: Cramer: Powell fixed his 'rookie mistake' and is now on the right path with rateshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/cramer-powell-fixed-his-rookie-mistake-and-is-now-on-the-right-path.html
&quot;It&#039;s not easy to start. You make your rookie mistakes, you come back. He&#039;s a great guy,&quot; CNBC&#039;s Jim Cramer says.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:06:00 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russia to evaluate Ukrainian presidential election based on results, Lavrov sayshttp://tass.com/politics/1049834
The Ukrainian presidential election is scheduled for March 31Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:05:15 +0100REUTERS: Anti-Bouteflika protests shake Algeria business communityhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/9SkYgf_RLpo/anti-bouteflika-protests-shake-algeria-business-community-idUKKCN1R219G
One of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's few remaining allies in the face of mass protests, tycoon Ali Haddad, is facing pressure to quit as head of Algeria's main business association, a move that would further weaken the embattled head of state.<div class="feedflare">
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At least 40 people died when an overloaded ferry sank in the Tigris river near Mosul in Iraq, police and medical sources told Reuters on March 21.MosThu, 21 Mar 2019 15:02:14 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Germany gives seal of approval to truck turning assistanthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/germany-gives-seal-of-approval-to-truck-turning-assistant/2019/03/21/a40f5f66-4be1-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Germany’s transport ministry has issued its first operating license for a driver assistance system meant to reduce the number of cyclists or pedestrians killed by turning vehiclesThu, 21 Mar 2019 15:00:11 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Erdogan airs mosque gunman video ahead visit by NZ ministerhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/erdogan-airs-mosque-gunman-video-ahead-visit-by-nz-minister/2019/03/21/85d4b38e-4be1-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Turkey’s president has again screened clips of a video taken by the Christchurch mosque gunman, a day before the foreign minister of New Zealand — which is trying to stop its use — is due in TurkeyThu, 21 Mar 2019 14:59:21 +0100CNBC: San Francisco could ban Amazon's cashier-free storeshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/san-francisco-could-ban-amazons-cashier-free-stores.html
New Jersey and Philadelphia recently signed into law bills that ban stores that do not accept cash, citing issues of discrimination.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:58:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Ferry sinks in Tigris near Iraq’s Mosul, killing 40https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/ferry-sinks-in-tigris-near-iraqs-mosul-killing-40/2019/03/21/fb1a3782-4be0-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
An Iraqi official says a ferry overloaded with people celebrating the Kurdish new year sank in the Tigris river near Mosul, killing at least 40 peopleThu, 21 Mar 2019 14:55:27 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Iraqi official says ferry sinks in Tigris River near Mosul, killing 40 peoplehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iraqi-official-says-ferry-sinks-in-tigris-river-near-mosul-killing-40-people/2019/03/21/894503f8-4be0-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Iraqi official says ferry sinks in Tigris River near Mosul, killing 40 peopleThu, 21 Mar 2019 14:52:16 +0100NEW YORK POST: Michael Dukakis rips ‘draft-dodger’ Trump after tank photo jokehttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/michael-dukakis-rips-draft-dodger-trump-after-tank-photo-joke/
President Trump&#8217;s joke about Michael Dukakis tanked with the former Democratic presidential nominee. Dukakis, who ran against George H.W. Bush, wasn&#8217;t happy about Trump mocking him for donning a helmet and riding in a tank during the 1988 campaign. &#8220;I want to get into them but then I remember when a man named Dukakis got...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:52:14 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Holi 2019: India celebrates festival of colorshttp://tass.com/society/1049823
Holi festival is observed at the end of the winter season in India and other South Asian nationsThu, 21 Mar 2019 14:51:01 +0100REUTERS: Victory over Islamic State to be announced after enclave searched - SDFhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/F0A7Pl9GNdE/victory-over-islamic-state-to-be-announced-after-enclave-searched-sdf-idUKKCN1R20IX
U.S.-backed Syrian forces were sweeping on Thursday through the final enclave that had been held by Islamic State fighters, and said they would declare the group defeated once a search for hidden mines and jihadist holdouts was complete.<div class="feedflare">
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The number of people wishing to support the specified petition is so high that this service fails to operate at timesThu, 21 Mar 2019 14:47:39 +0100REUTERS: In sign of new dual rule, Kazakh leaders sticking togetherhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/Ykgm5TPWmBo/in-sign-of-new-dual-rule-kazakh-leaders-sticking-together-idUKKCN1R21GE
Nursultan Nazarbayev remains omnnipresent in Kazakh politics days after his surprise resignation, hinting he will effectively retain a share of power with the loyalist parliament speaker who automatically stepped into his shoes.<div class="feedflare">
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Arson turned out to be the cause of at least two last year's large forest fires, near Yalta and Stary KrymThu, 21 Mar 2019 14:44:42 +0100REUTERS: Pompeo, in Israel, says Hezbollah putting Lebanon at riskhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/aB44ll2b1eI/pompeo-in-israel-says-hezbollah-putting-lebanon-at-risk-idUKKCN1R2189
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday described the heavily armed Hezbollah group as a risk to their fellow Lebanese and conferred with Israel about the Iranian-backed militia ahead of a trip to Beirut.<div class="feedflare">
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Boeing jets in Ethiopia and Indonesia lacked two safety features in their cockpits because the company charged extra to install them.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:44:00 +0100The Guardian: Cyclone Idai witness describes seeing hundreds of bodies by roadsidehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/cyclone-idai-mozambique-witness-describes-total-devastation-death-flood-hit-countryside
<p>Stranded motorist tells of encountering scenes of ‘total devastation and death’</p><p>A man who walked through an area of Mozambique’s flood-hit countryside in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/cyclone-idai">wake of Cyclone Idai</a> has said he saw hundreds of bodies by the side of the road, describing scenes of “devastation and destruction</p><p>Graham Taylor was trying to drive home from the ravaged port city of Beira eastward to Chimoio on Saturday, two days after the cyclone made landfall. Stranded in the floods, he abandoned his car and walked more than 15 miles (25km) from the village of Lamego to Nhamatanda early on Monday morning.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/cyclone-idai-mozambique-witness-describes-total-devastation-death-flood-hit-countryside">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:43:28 +0100REUTERS: Explainer: Bouteflika at bay - Why protesters are taking on Algeria's ruling systemhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/ZxSy5ckYB-U/explainer-bouteflika-at-bay-why-protesters-are-taking-on-algerias-ruling-system-idUKKCN1R21G0
Protests that brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets in Algeria over the past month led President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to scrap plans to run for a fifth term.<div class="feedflare">
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The Sevmorput will deliver the output of Russian enterprises - pipes, metal frameworks, containers and building machineryThu, 21 Mar 2019 14:42:59 +0100BBC: Zambia bans 'Viagra' energy drinkhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47654020
Some consumers had complained about unwanted side-effects, prompting the authorities to investigate.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:35:25 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Finland’s health-care system is ranked among the best in the world. Someone tell Nikki Haley.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/worldviews/finlands-health-care-system-is-ranked-among-the-best-in-the-world-someone-tell-nikki-haley/2019/03/21/872b7ed5-e79c-4f66-8c8d-bf4f555eb2bb_story.html
The former Trump diplomat implied Finland as an example of where universal health care doesn’t work.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:34:22 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: ‘It’s About All of Us’: New Zealand’s Gun Crackdownhttps://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000006421707/new-zealand-gun-ban.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand announced a ban on military-style semiautomatic guns on Thursday. The ban includes weapons that can be modified into the same kinds of guns used in the shooting at Christchurch last week.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:29:57 +0100The Guardian: UN to explore wave of deaths linked to food aid porridge in Ugandahttps://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/mar/21/un-to-explore-wave-of-deaths-linked-to-food-aid-porridge-in-uganda-world-food-programme
<p>World Food Programme halts distribution of fortified cereal as four people die and hundreds suffer suspected food poisoning</p><p>The World Food Programme and Ugandan government have launched an investigation into deaths linked with the distribution of fortified porridge to refugees and people suffering from malnourishment.</p><p>The health ministry was alerted to reports of possible food poisoning among people who had consumed Super Cereal, a blended food designed to prevent malnutrition, in the north-east region of Karamoja on 12 March.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/mar/21/un-to-explore-wave-of-deaths-linked-to-food-aid-porridge-in-uganda-world-food-programme">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:27:17 +0100The Guardian: 500 years in 59 seconds: the race to be the world's largest cityhttps://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/21/500-years-in-59-seconds-the-race-to-be-the-worlds-largest-city
<p>Fascinating interactive graphic shows changes in the globe’s 10 most populous cities from 1500 to 2018</p><p>This compelling interactive “bar chart race” shows the top 10 most populous cities in the world from 1500 to 2018.</p><p>“In the early 1500s most people lived in the east, either the east of Europe and north Africa or the east of the world itself in India and China,” says John Burn-Murdoch, who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMs5xapBewM&amp;t=5s">created the interactive for the Financial Times</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/21/500-years-in-59-seconds-the-race-to-be-the-worlds-largest-city">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:25:34 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russian-Japanese trade rising, though abrupt jump is unlikely, says experthttp://tass.com/economy/1049841
The expert believes that the program for acceleration of economic ties between the two countries offered by the Japanese PM can open up new cooperation areasThu, 21 Mar 2019 14:21:55 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: U.K. Police Investigating Attacks on 4 Mosques in Birminghamhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/world/europe/uk-birmingham-mosque-attack.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
In one episode, a man took a sledgehammer to smash the windows of a mosque in Birmingham, England, home to one of the largest Muslim populations in Britain.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:16:59 +0100REUTERS: Khamenei says Iran will boost defence capabilities despite U.S. pressurehttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/CH8xYK14gmI/khamenei-says-iran-will-boost-defence-capabilities-despite-u-s-pressure-idUKKCN1R21DV
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday that Iran was determined to boost its defence capabilities despite mounting pressure from the United States and its allies to curb its ballistic missile programme.<div class="feedflare">
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<p>Advisers to Joe Biden are reportedly debating tapping Stacey Abrams as a vice presidential pick when Biden announces his 2020 campaign</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/sep/17/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed">Sign up for the US briefing to get a fresh perspective</a></li></ul><p class="block-time published-time"> <time datetime="2019-03-21T13:14:18.153Z">1.14pm <span class="timezone">GMT</span></time> </p><p>In a statement, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont announced that his presidential campaign will offset all carbon emissions it produces. The effort comes as Democratic presidential candidates increasingly try to sell themselves as environmentally friendly.</p><p>In an effort to balance out the carbon emissions produced by travel activities associated with both himself and his staff, Sanders is partnering with NativeEnergy, a Vermont-based leader in emissions reduction project investments, to support renewable energy projects and invest in carbon reduction projects. Bernie 2020 will also offset event venue and attendee-related emissions. </p><p class="block-time published-time"> <time datetime="2019-03-21T12:52:29.989Z">12.52pm <span class="timezone">GMT</span></time> </p><p>Good morning.</p><p>President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to protect free speech on college campuses this afternoon, Democratic presidential hopeful John Hickenlooper told CNN last night that he once went to a pornographic movie with his mother and advisers to Joe Biden are reportedly debating tapping losing Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams as a vice presidential pick when Biden announces his 2020 campaign.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/mar/21/donald-trump-latest-news-live-us-politics-campus-free-speech-order-joe-biden">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:14:18 +0100The Guardian: Climate change could make insurance too expensive for ordinary people – reporthttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/21/climate-change-could-make-insurance-too-expensive-for-ordinary-people-report
<p>Munich Re, world’s largest reinsurance firm, warns premium rises could become social issue</p><p>Insurers have warned that climate change could make affordable cover for ordinary people unaffordable after the <a href="https://www.reinsurancene.ws/top-50-reinsurance-groups/">world’s largest</a> reinsurance firm blamed global warming for $24bn (£18bn) of losses in the Californian wildfires.</p><p>Ernst Rauch, Munich Re’s chief climatologist, told the Guardian that the costs could soon be widely felt, with premium rises already under discussion with clients holding asset concentrations in vulnerable parts of the state.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/21/climate-change-could-make-insurance-too-expensive-for-ordinary-people-report">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:12:53 +0100BBC: Texas chemical fire: Residents of Deer Park warned to stay indoorshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47654340
Eight tanks at the chemical plant caught fire earlier this week.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:12:15 +0100The Guardian: Witness describes flood-hit Mozambique: 'We just saw total devastation' – audiohttps://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/mar/21/witness-describes-flood-hit-mozambique-devastation-audio
<p>In the wake of Cyclone Idai, Zimbabwean Graham Taylor has described the ‘total devastation, carnage and deaths’. Taylor is travelling through the flood-hit countryside of Mozambique. ‘As far as I could look and walk I came across two, three, four hundred bodies floating and on the side of the road,’ he said</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/mar/21/witness-describes-flood-hit-mozambique-devastation-audio">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:11:45 +0100REUTERS: Ethiopia crash captain did not train on airline's MAX simulator - sourcehttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/aozZv0PpDZI/ethiopia-crash-captain-did-not-train-on-airlines-max-simulator-source-idUKKCN1R20WL
The captain of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight did not get a chance to practise on his airline's new simulator for the Boeing 737 MAX 8 before he died in a crash with 157 others, a pilot colleague said.<div class="feedflare">
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The detention of Roberto Marrero, immediately condemned by the United States, could signal a new crackdown on the opposition by embattled President Nicolás Maduro.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:06:32 +0100NEW YORK POST: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez flips out over mocking of her namehttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-flips-out-over-mocking-of-her-name/
What&#8217;s in a name? Everything for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The New York Democrat blasted Fox News host Laura Ingraham and her guest for mocking how she pronounced her name and saying she does so because it&#8217;s a &#8220;Latina thing.&#8221; &#8220;If by ‘the Latina thing,’ she means I actually do the work instead of just talk...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:06:21 +0100CNBC: The winner of Warren Buffett's March Madness office pool could get $1 million a year for lifehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/inside-warren-buffetts-multimillion-dollar-march-madness-challenge.html
If no one wins the ultimate bracket challenge, there&#039;s also a guaranteed $100,000 prize.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:05:00 +0100CNBC: Apple is on a hardware-launching bonanza ahead of its big TV announcementhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/apple-is-on-a-hardware-launching-bonanza-ahead-of-its-big-tv-announcement.html
Apple has launched three new hardware products ahead of a big launch focused on its TV service.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:05:00 +0100REUTERS: Venezuela's Guaido says intelligence agents detained his chief of staffhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/ZPxVGRpQeKU/venezuelas-guaido-says-intelligence-agents-detained-his-chief-of-staff-idUKKCN1R20WR
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Thursday intelligence agents had detained his chief of staff following a pre-dawn raid, signalling that President Nicolas Maduro may be cracking down on the opposition's challenge to his rule.<div class="feedflare">
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Indonesian investigators described on Thursday the panic of pilots grappling with airspeed and altitude problems in the last moments of their doomed Lion Air flight, as comparisons mounted with a disaster in Ethiopia.<div class="feedflare">
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<p>Zahraa Ghandour is mesmerising as a would-be suicide bomber in Mohamed Al-Daradji’s smart, sympathetic ensemble piece</p><p>It’s the first night of Eid, in 2006, and a young woman named Sara (Zahraa Ghandour) steps into the newly reopened Baghdad Central Station, with explosives strapped to her body and an detonator switch in her shaking hand. Time seems to stand still, fade to white, loop backwards and start over.</p><p>Sara enters the station again, and perhaps what we’re seeing now is her in a part of the multiverse where a moment’s hesitation affords her a chance to understand exactly who would be hurt if she pressed the button, what’s at stake and what her own motives are. A chance encounter with low-level grifter Salam (Ameer Ali Jabarah) forces Sara to take him hostage. Salam tries to persuade Sara not to trigger the bomb, appealing to a deadened sense of humanity that is slowly reawakened as she gets to know the other characters teeming around the station forecourt. These include a homeless brother and sister selling flowers and trying to stay clear of the tougher, meaner street kids; a desperate woman with a baby; a musician and his estranged wife; and a grieving father.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/21/the-journey-review">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:00:10 +0100CNBC: Cadillac banks on SUVs, electric vehicles to revive brand as sales languishhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/cadillac-banks-on-suvs-electric-vehicles-to-revive-languishing-sales.html
Sales of utility vehicles of all kinds that are dominating the American are critical to the automaker&#039;s long promised &quot;renaissance,&quot; Cadillac President Steve Carlisle said in an interview.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:00:00 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: Crimea: Enduring five years in a human rights black holehttps://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/crimea-enduring-five-years-in-a-human-rights-black-hole-20190321-p5166q.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
This month marks five years since Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula was invaded and subsequently occupied by Russia.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:00:00 +0100CNBC: 2020 hopeful Beto O'Rourke says he'd rather see Big Tech regulated than broken uphttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/beto-orourke-says-big-tech-needs-regulation-not-a-breakup.html
The comments appear to run slightly counter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren&#039;s proposal to dismantle some of Silicon Valley&#039;s giants.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:59:00 +0100CNBC: Powerball jackpot jumps to $625 million. Here's the tax bite if you winhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/powerball-jackpot-surges-heres-the-tax-bite-if-you-win.html
Uncle Sam would shave tens of millions of dollars off the windfall before it even reaches the winner.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:57:00 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): NATO’s actions violate security indivisibility principle, Lavrov sayshttp://tass.com/politics/1049836
The situation on the continent continues to be complicated, Russia's top diplomat notedThu, 21 Mar 2019 13:55:57 +0100CNBC: Facebook explains why its A.I. didn't detect the New Zealand mosque shooting videohttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/why-facebooks-ai-didnt-detect-the-new-zealand-mosque-shooting-video.html
Facebook said its artificial intelligence requires a large amount of content to learn patterns that would help it detect harmful content.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:54:00 +0100CNBC: Here are the biggest analyst calls of the day: Biogen, Apple, Micron, & morehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/here-are-the-biggest-analyst-calls-of-the-day-biogen-apple-micron--more.html
Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on ThursdayThu, 21 Mar 2019 13:53:00 +0100REUTERS: Aid workers rescue more African cyclone survivors, death toll mountshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/PxABy-__9ms/aid-workers-rescue-more-african-cyclone-survivors-death-toll-mounts-idUKKCN1R20M8
Rescue workers plucked more survivors from trees and roofs to safety on Thursday, a week after a cyclone ripped through southern Africa and triggered devastating floods that have killed hundreds of people and displaced hundreds of thousands.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~4/PxABy-__9ms" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:51:33 +0100The Guardian: Thousands attend vigil in Dunedin for victims of Christchurch attackhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/thousands-attend-vigil-dunedin-victims-christchurch-attack
<p>Mixed emotions in city where gunman who killed 50 lived for two years</p><p>More than 18,000 people have attended a candlelit vigil for victims of the Christchurch terrorist attack in the New Zealand city of Dunedin, where the gunman lived for two years.</p><p>Many of those in attendance at the Forsyth Barr Stadium, which is usually used for games of rugby and rock concerts, were students, who have been a constant presence outside the city’s sole mosque since last Friday, laying flowers and leaving notes of condolence.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/thousands-attend-vigil-dunedin-victims-christchurch-attack">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:50:34 +0100The Hindu International: Police probe attacks on four mosques in Birminghamhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/police-probe-attacks-on-four-mosques-in-birmingham/article26599341.ece
Counter-terrorism officers are investigating attacks on the mosques in four different areas in the north of the city, West Midlands Police said in a statement.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:48:24 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Britain pleads for Brexit delay as crucial European summit gets underwayhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/britain-pleads-for-brexit-delay-as-crucial-european-summit-gets-underway/2019/03/21/824d7a4c-4b4c-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Thursday’s decisions could determine whether Britain crashes out of the E.U. next week.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:46:36 +0100The Guardian: Dozens of endangered animal parts imported legally to UK in 2018https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/trophy-hunting-endangered-animals-parts-imported-in-uk-through-law-loophole
<p>Exclusive: elephant, lion and leopard parts among those imported by trophy hunters</p><p>Lion bones, leopard skulls and an ottoman chair’s elephant leather were among the body parts of endangered animals imported into the UK by trophy hunters through a loophole in international law in 2018, the Guardian can reveal.</p><p>The government is facing renewed calls to ban trophy hunting imports of endangered species after 74 rare animal body parts were legally brought into the country by hunters last year, including hippopotamus teeth, elephant ears and crocodile skins.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/trophy-hunting-endangered-animals-parts-imported-in-uk-through-law-loophole">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:43:35 +0100BBC: China chemical plant explosion kills six in Yanchenghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-47650986
Another 30 people are injured in the explosion at a fertiliser-making facility in Yancheng.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:42:39 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: News analysis: Theresa May’s Message to Britain at a Perilous Moment: It’s Parliament’s Faulthttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/world/europe/brexit-theresa-may-parliament.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
In an address to the nation Wednesday night, the prime minister lashed out, blaming squabbling lawmakers for the Brexit paralysis. They did not react well.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:42:12 +0100REUTERS: Anti-corruption campaigner tipped to win Slovakia's presidential run-offhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/DTGBJINrG6A/anti-corruption-campaigner-tipped-to-win-slovakias-presidential-run-off-idUKKCN1R21BF
Anti-corruption campaigner Zuzana Caputova was projected to win 60.5 percent of the vote in Slovakia's presidential election run-off on March 30 in her first run for political office, an opinion poll showed on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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The Trump administration is preparing a new push to help U.S. companies build the next generation of nuclear power plants overseas.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:42:00 +0100The Guardian: Anti-immigration party wins most votes in Netherlands electionhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/anti-immigration-fvd-party-wins-most-votes-netherlands-election
<p>FvD party on course to win 12 seats in provincial elections for upper house of parliament</p><p>An anti-immigration populist party has won the most votes in elections for the upper house of parliament in the Netherlands, days after a shooting in Utrecht, robbing the governing coalition of its majority and forcing it to seek new alliances on the left.</p><p>In a further fragmentation of Dutch politics, the Forum for Democracy (FvD) party of Thierry Baudet, a flamboyant former academic and columnist, is on course to win 12 seats in an upper house containing a record 12 parties, none with more than 12 seats.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/anti-immigration-fvd-party-wins-most-votes-netherlands-election">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:41:39 +0100NEW YORK POST: Max Rose apologizes to Jewish constituents for Ilhan Omar’s ‘anti-Semitic tropes’https://nypost.com/2019/03/21/max-rose-apologizes-to-jewish-constituents-for-ilhan-omars-anti-semitic-tropes/
Freshman Rep. Max Rose has apologized to his Jewish constituents during a town hall meeting for Rep. Ilhan Omar’s recent anti-Semitic statements. &#8220;As a young congressman, I’ve got to tell you I’m sorry,&#8221; the House Democrat from New York told the crowd assembled by the Council of Jewish Organizations of Staten Island on Tuesday night,...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:40:40 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Terrorism Charges Planned in Utrecht Shooting, Dutch Prosecutors Sayhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/world/europe/utrecht-tram-shootings-netherlands.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Officials said the suspect also faced multiple counts of murder or manslaughter over the attack in the Netherlands that left three people dead.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:40:28 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Putin’s message to Assad devoted to bilateral ties, Syrian settlement, says Kremlinhttp://tass.com/politics/1049814
On March 19, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu made a working trip to Damascus under the president’s instructions, and handed over the messageThu, 21 Mar 2019 13:37:33 +0100REUTERS: Moldova's new parliament lacks majority, announces recess - lawmakerhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/YcuGxwJDslc/moldovas-new-parliament-lacks-majority-announces-recess-lawmaker-idUKKCN1R219W
Moldova's new parliament, which is convening on Thursday for the first time, currently lacks the majority it needs to appoint a speaker and a new government, senior lawmaker Eduard Smirnov said.<div class="feedflare">
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Tiny cameras were hidden in hair dryer holders, satellite boxes and closed electric sockets, the police said. The video was shown online for profit.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:31:12 +0100NEW YORK POST: Venezuelan intelligence agents detain key aide to Juan Guaidóhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/venezuelan-intelligence-agents-detain-key-aide-to-juan-guaido/
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan security forces detained a key aide to opposition leader Juan Guaido in a raid on his home early Thursday, an opposition lawmaker said. Lawyer Roberto Marrero was taken by intelligence agents in the overnight operation in Caracas, said lawmaker Sergio Vergara, whose nearby residence was also searched. Vergara said he was...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:31:11 +0100CNBC: More Americans are using a trick that can help you save money for retirement—there's just 1 catchhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/how-to-open-and-use-a-health-savings-account.html
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<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Associated Press</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553170618081286100</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 12:10</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
LONDON: A sledgehammer-wielding man was seen smashing windows at two mosques in Britain's second city Birmingham and three more have been similarly vandalised overnight, the police said Thursday.<br />
Counter-terrorism officers are investigating attacks on the mosques in different areas in the central English city, West Midlands Police said in a statement.<br />
The force added the incidents were "being treated as linked".<br />
"We don't know the motive for last night's attacks," said Chief Constable Dave Thompson in a statement.<br />
"The force and the counter terrorism unit are working side-by-side to find whoever is responsible."<br />
Officers were first alerted in the early hours of Thursday to reports of a man smashing windows with a sledgehammer at one of the places of worship, police said.<br />
Following reports of a similar attack at another mosque in a nearby neighbourhood, officers launched targeted patrols and discovered "further damage" at two other sites.<br />
A fifth mosque later reported that windows had been smashed.</p>
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Deeply concerning &amp; distressing to see number of mosques have been vandalised in Birmingham overnight. <a href="https://twitter.com/WMPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WMPolice</a> are investigating motive but let me be clear - hateful behaviour has absolutely no place in our society &amp; will never be accepted <a href="https://t.co/G9EFerOt9W">https://t.co/G9EFerOt9W</a></p>
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"Forensic officers are working to identify evidence, and CCTV is being examined," the West Midlands force added.<br />
Some 22 percent of the Birmingham population described themselves as Muslim in the 2011 census.<br />
British national police chiefs last week announced officers were providing "reassurance patrols" around mosques in the immediate aftermath of Friday's deadly gun rampage at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.<br />
Anti-racism groups have warned that Islamophobia is on the rise in Britain and spurring a spike in far-right activity in the country.<br />
A report released last month by the Hope Not Hate charity cited a poll which found more than a third of Britons see Islam as "generally a threat to the British way of life".<br />
In another recent incident, Mohammed Mahmoud - an imam who won praise for shielding the perpetrator of a 2017 deadly terror attack against a north London mosque - reported he was spat at and abused this week.<br />
Mahmoud said he was targeted Monday while returning home from a solidarity event for the New Zealand massacre with other religious leaders, as well as interior minister Sajid Javid and London Mayor Sadiq Khan.</p>
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British Home Secretary Sajid Javid says that the Birmingham attacks are "deeply concerning."<br />
In a tweet, Javid stressed that "hateful behaviour has absolutely no place in our society &amp; will never be accepted."<br />
Birmingham City Council cabinet member Waseem Zaffar wrote on Twitter that the community "will fight back against any hate and division with love, peace and harmony."<br />
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Dutch prosecutors said Thursday they will charge the suspect in this week's deadly tram shooting in the city of Utrecht with multiple murder charges with terrorist intent.
Prosecutors believe Turkish-born Gokmen Tanis acted alone Monday when he allegedly killed three people and seriously wounded three others.
Prosecutors and police said in a statement they are still investigating whether the 37-year-old suspect "acted out of a single terrorist motive or whether from personal problems in combination with radicalized ideas."
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<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Glenda KWEK and Daniel DE CARTERET | AFP</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553167679450940700</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 11:09</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
CHRISTCHURCH: Heads bowed, their hair covered by black headscarves, female family members of Mohemmed Daoud Nabi gently wept as they approached his body until a fellow mourner called out “Don’t cry.”<br />
It was a refrain heard repeatedly throughout the short, emotional funeral for 71-year-old Nabi, one of 50 people slain by a white supremacist gunman in Christchurch last Friday during a live broadcast rampage that caused global revulsion.<br />
Those bidding farewell to the septuagenarian were determined to send out a message. This was a day of celebration, not of loss.<br />
Nabi was the man who unknowingly opened the door to his killer at the city’s Al Noor mosque, reportedly welcoming him with the words “Hello Brother.”<br />
And that was the memory those laying him to rest wanted to broadcast on Thursday.<br />
Huddled together under a marquee on a grey and blustery day, Nabi’s sons recited prayers in Dari and Arabic as the former head of their family lay in a wooden casket at their feet.<br />
“Those who live abroad and die or killed there will go to paradise,” one of the sons said, a reference to Nabi’s journey two decades before from war-torn Afghanistan to his adopted homeland New Zealand.<br />
“He was killed in a mosque in a house of God. He was a true servant. He was a pious person,” he added.<br />
After prayers mourners carefully lifted the casket aloft and carried Nabi toward the newly dug grave at Memorial Park Cemetery, one of dozens for victims of the massacre.<br />
Those gathered were a reflection of the breadth of the community affected by Friday’s massacre, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, bikers, refugees, young families — all touched by Nabi and the warmth he showed.<br />
Some held placards advocating peace and tolerance. Some sported those now two ubiquitous words: “Hello Brother.”<br />
As Nabi’s body, wrapped in white cloth, neared the grave, quietness descended over the crowd. Family and close friends then gathered to pour earth from plastic buckets into the open casket.<br />
Stretching out across the cemetery were row upon row of empty graves still waiting to be filled in the coming days.<br />
It was a stark reminder of the sheer scale of the killings, 50 dead among a small, tight-knit community in a town with a population of some 350,000 people.<br />
Yet the mood in the compound remained joyous and steered away from despair.<br />
Heavily tattooed biker gang members mingled with men wearing Afghan dress, non-Muslims and smartly dressed community leaders, embracing, sharing memories and stories.<br />
A long line of mourners took turns to hug Nabi’s sons.<br />
“I’m happy because he went straight to Jannah (paradise),” Omar Nabi said. “The gunman didn’t even know he opened the gates to heaven for my dad.<br />
“He is laughing at him and smiling at us... Have you ever congratulated anybody for a death? This is the time and this is the place. Don’t cry. Don’t be sad. Congratulations. Your father made it to heaven.”</p>
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Portugal is sending an intervention taskforce to help in the search and rescue of survivors in Mozambique following the devastation caused by Cyclone IdaiThu, 21 Mar 2019 12:40:48 +0100REUTERS: Air traffic volumes reduced in Germany due to software glitchhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/pW2JPKuC4lU/air-traffic-volumes-reduced-in-germany-due-to-software-glitch-idUKKCN1R215F
Germany's air traffic control (DFS) said on Thursday it had reduced air traffic volumes in large parts of the country due to a software problem in its control centre near Frankfurt.<div class="feedflare">
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More than 300 soldiers have arrived in Germany from their base in Texas in the first test of a new American strategy to rapidly deploy U.S.-based troops to Europe to bolster the NATO deterrent against possible Russian aggressionThu, 21 Mar 2019 12:33:27 +0100NEW YORK POST: New Yorkers can’t stand Bill de Blasio: pollhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/new-yorkers-cant-stand-bill-de-blasio-poll/
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Darden Restaurants, Olive Garden&#039;s parent company, reported earnings Thursday before the bell.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:31:00 +0100REUTERS: Kremlin accuses U.S. of stoking tensions by flying bombers near its bordershttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/nRhdBH5VGM0/kremlin-accuses-u-s-of-stoking-tensions-by-flying-bombers-near-its-borders-idUKKCN1R214T
The Kremlin on Thursday said that flights by U.S. nuclear-capable B-52 strategic bombers across the Baltic Sea's neutral waters near Russia's borders created tension in the region.<div class="feedflare">
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The suspect is expected to face a judge on Friday.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:30:04 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: 11 dead, 50 rescued after India building collapsehttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1470276/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">AFP</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553167598980933900</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 11:23</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
NEW DELHI: Eleven people were confirmed dead on Thursday three days after a building under construction in southern India caved in, officials said.<br />
Building collapses are frequent in India. Many firms use cheap materials and bribe officials to evade regulations, while on-site safety is lax.<br />
Around 400 rescuers have been scouring through tons concrete and steel after the latest tragedy in Karnataka state on Tuesday.<br />
Fifty-three people have been rescued from the rubble of the five-story building in Dharwad district, but three more bodies were pulled out on Thursday.<br />
“At least 15 people are possibly still under the debris and it’s unlikely they will survive,” emergency official Srikant, who goes by one name, told AFP.<br />
Heavy earth-movers and rescuers with specialized equipment and sniffer dogs were deployed in the increasingly desperate operation.<br />
The victims were mostly from northern Indian states who came to the region for work.<br />
Police have charged the builder with manslaughter but he remains free, with investigators saying he will be arrested after the rescue operation is over.<br />
Last September, five people were killed after a Delhi apartment block collapsed. Months earlier, a six-story building in the capital had given way, killing nine.<br />
Millions of Indians, who will vote in elections in April and May, live in dilapidated old buildings, many of which are susceptible to collapse during rain.</p>
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On March 21, Pyotr Poroshenko signed the law to impose sanctions on 294 legal entities, 848 persons who took part in the Crimean Bridge construction and the organization of the Donbass' electionsThu, 21 Mar 2019 12:27:59 +0100REUTERS: Water is now gold for desperate Venezuelanshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/PSSjPLIhK0Y/water-is-now-gold-for-desperate-venezuelans-idUKKCN1R2143
Living with a scarcity of water is becoming the norm for many Venezuelans.<div class="feedflare">
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Indonesian transportation officials denied dramatic details of the cockpit voice recorder that had been leaked to media. Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:24:19 +0100REUTERS: Venezuela's Guaido says intelligence agents seize his chief of staffhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/R6dGwy6j3qg/venezuelas-guaido-says-intelligence-agents-seize-his-chief-of-staff-idUKKCN1R20WR
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Polish authorities have refused to invite a Russian delegation to a commemoration ceremony marking the anniversary of the outbreak of World War IIThu, 21 Mar 2019 12:20:18 +0100REUTERS: Ethiopian crash captain untrained on 737 MAX simulator - sourcehttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/a74r2Wazms0/ethiopian-crash-captain-untrained-on-737-max-simulator-source-idUKKCN1R20WL
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Such actions by the United States breed more tensions, according to the Kremlin spokesmanThu, 21 Mar 2019 12:17:35 +0100REUTERS: U.S. military may join Mozambique cyclone rescue, aid agencies toldhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/R_h8v-NTbl8/u-s-military-may-join-mozambique-cyclone-rescue-aid-agencies-told-idUKKCN1R213M
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Police in southern Germany say they have arrested two people suspected of making and spreading child porn following raids at several locations, including a child care centerThu, 21 Mar 2019 12:14:16 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: Merkel: Germany risks been viewed as unreliable on armshttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1470266/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Associated Press</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553166464090834200</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 11:00</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that her country risks being viewed as an unreliable partner in joint European defense industry projects.<br />
Merkel’s comments Thursday came amid tensions with France and Britain over Berlin’s ban on arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Paris and London say it prevents them selling jointly developed equipment with German components to the country.<br />
Merkel said joint European projects require “reliability between partners.” She said other countries sometimes have different perspectives and Germany needs to discuss the matter, “otherwise we will be viewed as morally arrogant ... or we will be viewed as incapable of compromise.” She added there’s no use “paying lip-service to a great Europe and how we all want to work together.”<br />
The chancellor’s coalition partners favor a very restrictive line on arms exports.</p>
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Indonesian investigators said on Thursday the cockpit voice recorder from a crashed Lion Air Boeing Co 737 MAX 8 jet showed pilots were searching for the right checklist in their handbooks and were experiencing airspeed and altitude issues.<div class="feedflare">
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The hallways of the Rusafa Central Criminal Court in Baghdad teemed with anxious toddlers on the days their mothers were on trial. Then they vanished again, into the women's prison, where they have lived for the past year and a half. They sleep on thin mattresses in crowded cells, bored, hungry and often sick. They are the foreign children of Islamic State.<div class="feedflare">
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The government will start buying back military-style weapons to remove them from circulation after a gunman killed 50 worshipers at two mosques..Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:07:57 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic brands Hague’s toughened sentence as ‘futile revenge’http://tass.com/world/1049783
The former leader of the Bosnian Serbs stressed that the Serbian people won, which resulted in the creation of their own republic in Bosnia and HerzegovinaThu, 21 Mar 2019 12:06:38 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Merkel: Germany risks been viewed as unreliable on armshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/merkel-germany-risks-been-viewed-as-unreliable-on-arms/2019/03/21/e8c3d920-4bc8-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that her country risks being viewed as an unreliable partner in joint European defense industry projectsThu, 21 Mar 2019 12:03:09 +0100CNBC: The new iPad Mini is compact but incredibly powerful, and fans will love ithttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/apple-ipad-mini-5th-generation-review.html
CNBC&#039;s Todd Haselton reviews the long-awaited Apple iPad Mini, a powerful but compact tablet that fans of the more compact form factor will love.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0100REUTERS: Prosecutors: Utrecht gunman had terrorist intent, other possible motives under investigationhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/n7lhwlTeo-s/prosecutors-utrecht-gunman-had-terrorist-intent-other-possible-motives-under-investigation-idUKKCN1R20YV
A suspected gunman arrested for killing three people on a Dutch tram this week is believed to have acted with terrorist intent, and authorities are also investigating whether he had other personal motives, prosecutors said on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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Venezuelan intelligence agents have detained Roberto Marrero, chief of staff to opposition leader Juan Guaido, legislators said on Thursday, in a sign of a potential crackdown by the government of President Nicolas Maduro.<div class="feedflare">
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China's Foreign Ministry said that Beijing, Moscow were permanent UNSC members and strategic partners with"dialogue on regional and global issues and make joint contributions to ensuring global peace"Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:53:40 +0100The Guardian: Windows smashed at four mosques in Birminghamhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/windows-smashed-at-four-mosques-in-birmingham
<p>Counter-terrorism officers investigating after series of attacks overnight </p><p>Counter-terrorism police are investigating a series of incidents in which windows were smashed at four mosques in Birmingham.</p><p>West Midlands police were first called at 2.32am to a mosque on Birchfield Road, Perry Barr, where a man was reported to be breaking windows. Officers who arrived there discovered that the attack had taken place some time earlier.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/windows-smashed-at-four-mosques-in-birmingham">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:49:50 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: Online petition to revoke Brexit gets 600,000 supporters in less than 24 hourshttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1470256/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">AFP</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553164723060712200</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 10:36</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
LONDON: An online petition asking the British government to revoke Brexit briefly crashed on Thursday after a surge in support saw it garner more than 600,000 signatures in less than 24 hours.<br />
With just eight days to go until Britain is scheduled to leave the European Union, the petition launched on Wednesday admitted that a second referendum “may not happen — so vote now.”<br />
“The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is ‘the will of the people’. We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now, for remaining in the EU,” the petition read.<br />
A House of Commons spokesman said the technical difficulties on the website for the petition were caused by “a large and sustained load on the system.”<br />
The petition was started by Margaret Anne Georgiadou, who told the BBC: “It’s almost like a dam bursting.<br />
“It’s now or never for a lot of people,” she said.<br />
Britain’s parliament will be able to vote next week on a range of preferred courses of action for the government to take if MPs reject for a third time a divorce deal negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May.<br />
One of those options could be to revoke Article 50 — the formal procedure under which Britain is negotiating to leave the bloc after 46 years of membership.<br />
Parliament last week voted against holding a second referendum after the main opposition Labour Party, which has been highly ambivalent on the issue, abstained.<br />
Georgiadou, who voted to stay in the EU in the 2016 referendum, said Remainers like her had been “silenced and ignored” since that vote.<br />
“In a democracy, everyone’s included. In a referendum, the losers have no voice. I was annoyed about that,” she said.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.arabnews.com/sites/default/files/2019/03/21/1497986-719992480.jpg" width="768" height="512" alt="" title="An online petition asking to revoke Brexit gathered more than 600,000 signatures in less than 24 hours. (AFP)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/brexit">Brexit</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/eu">EU</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/tags/britain">Britain</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/tags/uk">UK</a></div></div></div> Theresa May requests three-month Brexit extension, EU approval depends on deal passing UK voteUK jobs growth surges as labor market defies Brexit nervesThu, 21 Mar 2019 11:48:24 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: "Sometimes it feels like I'm alone" -- Sport when you're not winninghttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/oFV77jZ1vgM/index.html
When the snow melts, when fields of white turn luscious green leaving no remnants of winter behind, Harry Laidlaw will leave Europe and return to Australia.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/oFV77jZ1vgM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:48:13 +0100The Guardian: Facebook could have moved faster on Christchurch video 'if it were suicide'https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/facebook-could-have-moved-faster-on-christchurch-video-if-it-were-suicide
<p>Admission comes two days after Facebook and YouTube initially defended responses to live stream of shooting</p><p>Facebook has released more details of its response to the Christchurch terrorist attack, including the extraordinary admission that it did not deal with the attacker’s live stream as quickly as it could have, because it was not reported to the social network as a video of “suicide”.</p><p>The company has a system called “accelerated review” when a complaint is raised over a live stream or video which flags it as an urgent priority. But <a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/technical-update-on-new-zealand/">on Thursday</a> the company acknowledged that this process to date has only been activated on footage where suicide is reported.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/facebook-could-have-moved-faster-on-christchurch-video-if-it-were-suicide">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:47:49 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Dutch suspect in tram shooting to face terrorism chargehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/dutch-suspect-in-tram-shooting-to-face-terrorism-charge/2019/03/21/902815ee-4bc6-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Dutch prosecutors say they will charge the main suspect in a deadly tram shooting with offenses including multiple murder or manslaughter with a terrorist intentThu, 21 Mar 2019 11:46:21 +0100The Guardian: Hamas violently suppresses Gaza economic protestshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/hamas-violently-suppresses-gaza-economic-israeli-border-protests
<p>Gaza’s rulers, who back Israeli border protests, accused of using force against dissent</p><p>Hamas appears to have forcibly suppressed a rare uptick of public dissent in Gaza, beating and arresting scores of people over the past week who were demonstrating against price rises and dire living conditions across the strip.</p><p>A group of activists and civil society figures calling itself “We want to live” had planned for a general strike on Thursday. But following riot police attacks since last week, it was not clear if the strike would go ahead.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/hamas-violently-suppresses-gaza-economic-israeli-border-protests">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:44:29 +0100REUTERS: Cyclone puts 200,000 Zimbabweans in need of urgent food aid - U.N.http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/u1qI0y-W3YQ/cyclone-puts-200000-zimbabweans-in-need-of-urgent-food-aid-u-n-idUKKCN1R210T
An estimated 200,000 people in Zimbabwe are likely to need urgent food aid for the next three months after their district was hit by Cyclone Idai, World Food Programme spokesman Herve Verhoosel said on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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A recently filed criminal indictment offers a surprising snapshot of the Islamic State’s online “e-jihad” operation.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:41:26 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Venezuelan forces search homes of 2 opposition figureshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/venezuelan-forces-search-homes-of-2-opposition-figures/2019/03/21/df72532c-4bc5-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Venezuelan security forces search the homes of two key supporters of opposition leader Juan Guaido, who is escalating a campaign to oust President Nicolas MaduroThu, 21 Mar 2019 11:41:25 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Dutch prosecutors: Suspect in Utrecht tram shooting to be charged with murder or manslaughter with terrorist intenthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/dutch-prosecutors-suspect-in-utrecht-tram-shooting-to-be-charged-with-murder-or-manslaughter-with-terrorist-intent/2019/03/21/490942f6-4bc5-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Dutch prosecutors: Suspect in Utrecht tram shooting to be charged with murder or manslaughter with terrorist intentThu, 21 Mar 2019 11:37:12 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: Former Philippine officials file case against Xi Jinping for crimes against humanityhttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1470251/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">AP</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553164175450657500</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 10:24</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
MANILA, Philippines: Two former Philippine officials have filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court accusing Chinese President Xi Jinping of crimes against humanity over his government’s assertive actions in the disputed South China Sea, which they say deprived thousands of fishermen of their livelihoods and destroyed the environment.<br />
Former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario and anti-graft prosecutor Conchita Carpio Morales said Thursday that they filed the complaint with the tribunal last week, before the current Philippine president’s move to withdraw the country from the tribunal took effect last weekend.<br />
They accused Xi and other Chinese officials of turning seven disputed reefs into islands, causing massive environmental damage, and blocking large numbers of fishermen from their fishing grounds.<br />
There was no immediate reaction from China.</p>
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Nothing ever completely stops the sprawling Persian New Year party in Mazar-i-Sharif. But fears of factional violence cast a chill on the revelry this year.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:31:50 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: Dutch prosecutors: Utrecht shooting suspect had ‘radicalized ideology’http://www.arabnews.com/node/1470246/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Reuters</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553164201280660600</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 10:22</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
AMSTERDAM: Dutch prosecutors said in a statement on Thursday that the man arrested on suspicion of shooting three people dead in Utrecht this week had a “radicalized ideology” but it was not yet clear whether he was motivated solely by a terrorist intent.<br />
The suspect, 37-year-old Turkish-born Gokmen Tanis, is to go before a judge on Friday. Prosecutors added that he is slated to go under psychological examination.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.arabnews.com/sites/default/files/2019/03/21/1497966-1983808680.jpg" width="900" height="551" alt="" title="The suspect is 37-year-old Turkish-born Gokmen Tanis. (File/AFP)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/netherlands">Netherlands</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/utrecht">utrecht</a></div></div></div> Utrecht attack: The Erdogan connection?Netherlands: Man ‘set himself on fire’ at Turkish consulateThu, 21 Mar 2019 11:31:42 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Diplomat says NATO chief failed to show Lavrov any proof of Russia’s INF ‘violations’http://tass.com/politics/1049780
The United States argues that Russia violates the INF treaty and demands that Moscow should eliminate its ground-based cruise missile 9M729Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:30:32 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Ex-Philippine officials accuse Xi of crimes against humanityhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/ex-philippine-officials-accuse-xi-of-crimes-against-humanity/2019/03/21/e2b3be74-4bc3-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Two former Philippine officials have filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court accusing Chinese President Xi Jinping of crimes against humanity over his government’s assertive actions in the disputed South China SeaThu, 21 Mar 2019 11:27:12 +0100REUTERS: Dutch prosecutors - Utrecht shooting suspect had 'radicalized ideology'http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/0wJ982Ne3BQ/dutch-prosecutors-utrecht-shooting-suspect-had-radicalized-ideology-idUKKCN1R20YV
Dutch prosecutors said in a statement on Thursday that the man arrested on suspicion of shooting three people dead in Utrecht this week had a "radicalized ideology" but it was not yet clear whether he was motivated solely by a terrorist intent.<div class="feedflare">
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Technology giants and automakers are investing billions of dollars to develop driverless cars that promise to make roads safer. But who will pay when a crash does happen?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/zS2XLsAj5Gs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:23:59 +0100The Guardian: US briefing: New Zealand gun ban, Brexit delay and slavery reparationshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/us-briefing-new-zealand-gun-ban-brexit-delay-and-slavery-reparations
<p>Thursday’s top story: Ardern announces sweeping gun laws in response to Christchurch attacks. Plus, how the ‘Lavscam’ scandal has harmed Trudeau on his home turf</p><p><em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/sep/17/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed">Subscribe now</a> to receive the morning briefing by email.</em></p><p>Good morning, I’m Tim Walker with today’s essential stories.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/us-briefing-new-zealand-gun-ban-brexit-delay-and-slavery-reparations">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:22:30 +0100REUTERS: Venezuela opposition legislator says he was not arrested by intelligence agentshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/P_8KjpKlYXY/venezuela-opposition-legislator-says-he-was-not-arrested-by-intelligence-agents-idUKKCN1R20YE
Venezuelan opposition legislator Sergio Vergara said on Thursday he had not been arrested by intelligence agents who raided his house before dawn.<div class="feedflare">
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The U.S. ambassador to Yemen blamed the Iran-aligned Houthi movement on Thursday for the stalling of a U.N.-led peace deal in the main port of Hodeidah and said the group's weapons pose a threat to other countries in the region.<div class="feedflare">
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The Zefir-T system has been developed to receive and register telemetric dataThu, 21 Mar 2019 11:19:33 +0100REUTERS: Pilots searched for checklist before Lion Air crash - Indonesian investigatorshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/Lp2CQ1yO3VI/pilots-searched-for-checklist-before-lion-air-crash-indonesian-investigators-idUKKCN1R20VX
Indonesian investigators said on Thursday the cockpit voice recorder from a crashed Lion Air Boeing Co 737 MAX 8 jet showed pilots were searching for the right checklist in their handbooks and were experiencing airspeed and altitude issues.<div class="feedflare">
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Pakistani provincial lawmakers assail marches held on International Women’s Day as anti-IslamicThu, 21 Mar 2019 11:18:11 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Ambassador’s untouchables: Poroshenko in hot seat over prosecutor’s claims against envoyhttp://tass.com/world/1049778
Earlier, Ukraine's general prosecutor said in an interview that in his first meeting with the US Ambassador to Ukraine, she handed him a list of "untouchable" individuals that should not be prosecutedThu, 21 Mar 2019 11:15:10 +0100CNBC: This 19-year-old is paying her way through college by naming over 677,000 Chinese babieshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/beau-jessup-teen-pays-college-fees-by-naming-chinese-babies.html
Beau Jessup has made a name for herself in China with her lucrative baby naming service.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:14:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Vietnam arrests 8 Chinese suspected of drug traffickinghttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/vietnam-arrests-8-chinese-suspected-of-drug-trafficking/2019/03/21/a8f11a62-4bc1-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Vietnamese police have arrested eight Chinese suspected of drug trafficking after seizing 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of methamphetamine worth up to $26 millionThu, 21 Mar 2019 11:11:15 +0100NEW YORK POST: Woman charged with manslaughter in hot-car deathhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/woman-charged-with-manslaughter-in-hot-car-death/
ORLANDO, Fla. — Authorities say a Florida woman has been charged in the death of a 4-year-old boy who was left in a hot minivan for more than six hours. The Orlando Sentinel reports 27-year-old Mariah Butler was arrested Tuesday and charged with aggravated manslaughter and child neglect. The Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says Logan...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:09:49 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Frigate Admiral Essen conducts drills in the Mediterraneanhttp://tass.com/defense/1049772
The ships of this class have a displacement of about 4,000 tonnes, speed of 30 knots and endurance of 30 daysThu, 21 Mar 2019 11:07:48 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Why New Zealand could do what the U.S. can’t: Change gun laws in the face of tragedyhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/worldviews/why-new-zealand-could-do-what-the-us-cant-change-gun-laws-in-the-face-of-tragedy/2019/03/21/430e323a-b322-4e1a-a732-613ddece7005_story.html
Electoral systems, courts and the influence of lobby groups are among the key factors.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:06:20 +0100The Hindu International: Third pilot was in the cockpit of Lion Air that crashed in Octoberhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/third-pilot-was-in-the-cockpit-of-lion-air-that-crashed-in-october/article26598235.ece
The chairman of Indonesia’s transportation safety agency confirmed on Thursday that a third pilot was in the cockpit of a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 oThu, 21 Mar 2019 11:01:18 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Turkish, Greek ministers meet with ‘positive agenda’https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/turkish-greek-ministers-meet-with-positive-agenda/2019/03/21/204e51ee-4bc0-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Turkey’s foreign minister says the defense chiefs of Turkey and Greece could meet soon as part of new confidence-building measures aimed at reducing tensions between the NATO alliesThu, 21 Mar 2019 11:00:16 +0100The Guardian: 'He's not a bad person, but …' Justin Trudeau voters lament scandalhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/hes-not-a-bad-person-but-justin-trudeau-voters-lament-scandal
<p>In the Canadian prime minister’s Montreal base the Lavscam imbroglio has taken a toll on previously staunch support</p><p>Nicola Papadakis says he is done voting for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/justin-trudeau">Justin Trudeau</a>.</p><p>The decision clearly bothers the retired cleaner, 76. Like many Greeks in the Montreal neighbourhood of Park Extension, Papadakis has a nearly unshakable loyalty to Trudeau’s father, former prime minister <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/sep/30/guardianobituaries">Pierre </a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/sep/30/guardianobituaries">Trudeau</a>. “He gave us hope, he kept us together,” says Papadakis of the elder Trudeau.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/hes-not-a-bad-person-but-justin-trudeau-voters-lament-scandal">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:00:07 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Surgeon describes saving 4-year-old New Zealand victim: ‘She should not die on the table’https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/03/21/surgeon-describes-saving-year-old-victim-nz-shootings-she-should-not-die-table/
The child arrived at the hospital with no pulse and had spent 30 minutes in cardiac arrest before pediatric surgeons managed to revive her.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:00:02 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Surgeon describes saving 4-year-old victim of New Zealand shootings: ‘She should not die on the table’https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/surgeon-describes-saving-4-year-old-victim-of-new-zealand-shootings-she-should-not-die-on-the-table/2019/03/21/b614fc90-ad8a-477e-aaa4-65ca67375dfe_story.html
As of Wednesday evening, the girl is in stable condition and doing “extremely well.”Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:00:01 +0100WASHINGTON POST: What do people in China think about ‘social credit’ monitoring?https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/monkey-cage/what-do-people-in-china-think-about-social-credit-monitoring/2019/03/21/eededb06-360a-4a58-ba48-5ccd87488b7c_story.html
It’s not “Black Mirror.” But does this push Chinese to clean up their online and offline behavior?Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:00:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Venezuela has its electricity back, for now, but it’s still on the verge of collapsehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/venezuela-has-its-electricity-back-for-now-but-its-still-on-the-verge-of-collapse/2019/03/20/1cb0060e-4986-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
The most severe economic crisis in recorded Latin American history is getting worse.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:00:00 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Press review: NATO bid for Brazil may jolt BRICS and US eyes ‘Star Wars’ after INF failurehttp://tass.com/pressreview/1049730
Top stories in the Russian press on ThursdayThu, 21 Mar 2019 11:00:00 +0100REUTERS: Venezuela intelligence agents detain Guaido aide, legislator: Guaido press teamhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/-gjzQ6wTXA4/venezuela-intelligence-agents-detain-guaido-aide-legislator-guaido-press-team-idUKKCN1R20WR
Venezuelan intelligence agents have detained Roberto Marrero, chief of staff to opposition leader Juan Guaido, as well as opposition legislator Sergio Vergara, Guaido's press team said on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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President Donald Trump aimed new blasts of invective at the late John McCain, even claiming credit for the senator&#039;s moving Washington funeral and complaining he was never properly thanked.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:58:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Floods, destruction from cyclone continue in Mozambiquehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/floods-destruction-from-cyclone-continue-in-mozambique/2019/03/21/a9dda76c-4bbf-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
A week after Cyclone Idai hit coastal Mozambique and swept across the country to Zimbabwe, its flooding, destruction and death continues in southern Africa, making it one of the most destructive natural disasters in the region’s recent historyThu, 21 Mar 2019 10:56:58 +0100REUTERS: Exclusive: Ethiopian crash captain untrained on 737 MAX simulator - sourcehttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/5EvHvyVy5B0/exclusive-ethiopian-crash-captain-untrained-on-737-max-simulator-source-idUKKCN1R20WL
The captain of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight was unable to practice on a new simulator for the Boeing 737 MAX 8 before he died in a crash with 157 others, a pilot colleague said.<div class="feedflare">
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Rescue workers extended their search in Mozambique on Thursday for survivors of devastating floods following a powerful cyclone that ripped through southern Africa a week ago, killing hundreds and destroying buildings and farmland.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~4/6Z_Uik7S7ks" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:55:06 +0100The Guardian: Delhi Crime: Netflix drama takes on gang rape that shocked Indiahttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/delhi-netflix-drama-india-jyoti-singh
<p>Series focuses on aftermath of crime that pushed government into changing sexual assault laws</p><p>Two Delhi police officers drive along a dark highway to the home of an accused rapist, reflecting on the increasingly sadistic violence they are seeing in the Indian capital. “It’s simple,” one tells the other. “The bigger the gap between the rich and poor, the more the crimes.”</p><p>Delhi Crime, a Netflix miniseries debuting globally on Friday, reconstructs the police investigation into the notorious 2012 gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh. The student’s killing triggered protests across India, reform of the country’s sexual assault laws and an ongoing reckoning about women’s safety in the country.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/delhi-netflix-drama-india-jyoti-singh">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:53:22 +0100Voice of Europe: As Brexit Clock Ticks, May Appeals to EU for Delayhttps://www.voanews.com/a/as-brexit-clock-ticks-may-appeals-to-eu-for-delay/4840796.html
British Prime Minister Theresa May is trying Thursday to persuade European Union leaders in Brussels to approve a three-month extension, giving Britain more time to figure out how exactly it will leave the EU.
The other 27 EU members must approve any Brexit delay beyond the original March 29 deadline. A vote is not likely to take place until next week.
Before May traveled to make her case in person at Thursday’s EU meeting, she made her request in a letter to EU Council President Donald Tusk.
But Tusk says such a short-term extension can only happen if Britain’s parliament votes in the next week to approve the divorce terms that British and EU negotiators reached after two years of talks.
British lawmakers have shown little enthusiasm for that deal, rejecting it by large margins in two votes. The speaker of the House of Commons has also said a third vote should not take place on procedural grounds.
May said in an address Wednesday night that lawmakers now have the choice to either support her deal or have Britain go forward with Brexit without any terms in place for its separation from the European Union.
Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn also traveled to Brussels for his own talks with EU officials in an attempt to find support for allowing parliament, and not May, to figure out an alternative path forward.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:50:48 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Ukrainian interior minister rules out Saakashvili’s returnhttp://tass.com/world/1049763
State Border Service Speaker Oleg Slobodyan, in turn, said that border guards would not allow Saakashvili to enter Ukraine on April 1, the day after the presidential voteThu, 21 Mar 2019 10:49:57 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Your Thursday Briefinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/briefing/new-zealand-john-mccain-ncaa-tournament.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
New Zealand, John McCain, N.C.A.A. Tournament: Here’s what you need to know.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:48:33 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russian space agency to adapt Soyuz-5 rocket for Sea Launch project — sourcehttp://tass.com/science/1049764
The launches are carried out from the equatorial Pacific near Christmas IslandThu, 21 Mar 2019 10:46:37 +0100The Guardian: Scott Morrison tells Waleed Aly he sought to lower fears on Islam, not exploit themhttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/scott-morrison-tells-waleed-aly
<p>Prime minister admits shadow cabinet discussed issue in 2010 but insists that he was seeking to avoid worsening divisions </p><p>The prime minister, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/scott-morrison">Scott Morrison</a>, has admitted a discussion took place in shadow cabinet in 2010 about community fears about Muslims, but said his contribution was intended to “lower the fears about Islam and not elevate them”.</p><p>In a wide-ranging interview with Waleed Aly on the Channel Ten program The Project, Morrison refused to answer repeated questions about whether he would insist that<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/20/morrison-on-the-spot-as-hanson-claims-mps-reject-one-nation-preference-snub"> One Nation be put last on how-to-vote cards</a>, while declaring his track record was to bring communities together.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/scott-morrison-tells-waleed-aly">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:38:44 +0100SKY NEWS: Four men arrested for 'secretly filming 1,600 hotel guests'http://news.sky.com/story/south-korean-police-arrest-four-men-on-suspicion-of-secretly-filming-1600-hotel-guests-11671538
South Korean police have arrested four people on suspicion of secretly filming around 1,600 hotel guests and live-streaming or posting the footage online.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:38:00 +0100CNBC: EU leaders to decide whether to give UK Brexit extensionhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/eu-leaders-to-decide-whether-to-give-uk-more-time-for-brexit.html
European leaders are meeting on Thursday to decide whether to grant the U.K. an extension to its Brexit departure due on March 29.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:38:00 +0100SKY NEWS: New tech could thwart crime gangs making millions off fake olive oilhttp://news.sky.com/story/new-tech-could-thwart-crime-gangs-making-millions-off-fake-olive-oil-11671539
Scientists in the US have devised a way of testing to see if olive oil is real without the use of hi-tech scientific equipment.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:37:00 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Assault rifles to be banned in New Zealand in aftermath of massacre, Prime Minister announceshttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/cE4MUH-hvfE/index.html
All military-style semi-automatic weapons, assault rifles and high-capacity magazines will be banned in New Zealand following the mass shootings at two Christchurch mosques that killed 50 people, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/cE4MUH-hvfE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:36:18 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Boeing Will Stop Charging to Install Safety Feature After Deadly Crasheshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/business/boeing-safety-features-charge.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Airlines had to pay extra for two optional upgrades that could warn pilots about sensor malfunctions. Now the company is making one of them standard.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:32:50 +0100REUTERS: China urges U.S. to block Taiwan leader's Hawaii stop-overhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/JvS_InI-w0Y/china-urges-u-s-to-block-taiwan-leaders-hawaii-stop-over-idUKKCN1R2089
China urged the United States on Thursday not to allow Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to stop over in Hawaii next week when she makes a tour of the island's diplomatic allies in the Pacific, adding another irritant to Beijing-Washington ties.<div class="feedflare">
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A few thousand opposition protesters have gathered in front of Albania’s parliament building calling for the government’s resignation and an early electionThu, 21 Mar 2019 10:21:23 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Official: 3rd pilot aided next-to-last Lion Air flighthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/official-3rd-pilot-aided-next-to-last-lion-air-flight/2019/03/21/940f78bc-4bb9-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
The chairman of Indonesia’s transportation safety agency has confirmed that a third pilot was in the cockpit of the next-to-last flight of a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:13:24 +0100The Guardian: Brexit: May's appeal to nation backfires as MPs accuse her of stoking hate - Politics livehttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2019/mar/21/brexit-latest-news-eu-summit-article-50-extension-theresa-may-appeal-to-nation-backfires-as-mps-accuse-her-of-stoking-hate-politics-live
<p>Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May at the Brussels summit where EU leaders will decide whether to delay Brexit by agreeing an article 50 extension</p><p class="block-time published-time"> <time datetime="2019-03-21T09:12:51.422Z">9.12am <span class="timezone">GMT</span></time> </p><p>Theresa May travels to Brussels today to formally request an extension to article 50, that would delay Brexit behind Friday next week, when the UK was supposed to leave the EU. British prime ministers have often had difficult encounters with their EU counterparts over the years, but it is hard to think of one more demeaning for the PM, or one where the power gap between the UK and the EU27 has been wider. “Humiliating” is an adjective frequently overused in political reporting, but today it is the prefect description.</p><p>As if that was not bad enough, May seems to have hamstrung her own, slender chances of getting parliament to agree a deal next week by giving an evening address to the nation in which she blamed MPs for the Brexit deadlock. You can read the full text <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/mar/20/brexit-latest-news-letter-article-50-extension-pmqs-theresa-may-bends-to-pressure-from-tory-brexiters-and-rules-out-asking-for-long-article-extension-politics-live?page=with:block-5c92ae66e4b0e8eadf78135d#block-5c92ae66e4b0e8eadf78135d">here, </a>and it will make quite a good case study for the Guardian’s ongoing study of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/the-new-populism">the new populism. </a>“I am on your side,” May declared, as she framed the crisis as a clash between MPs and the people. Parliament was to blame because it “has done everything possible to avoid making a choice”, claimed May, apparently oblivious to the charge that she herself is an Olympic-grade procrastinator.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/20/acting-like-trump-theresa-may-sparks-mps-brexit-fury">Theresa May: don't blame me for Brexit crisis, blame MPs</a> </p><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Theresa May's attempt to put Parliament against the people on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Brexit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Brexit</a> tonight is sinister. It is the populism of Steve Bannon and Donald Trump. History will judge her brutally. Our country deserves so much better than this.</p><p lang="en" dir="ltr">She's a national disgrace. I don't know why each time it surprises me. <a href="https://t.co/QKvmvuCNX1">https://t.co/QKvmvuCNX1</a></p><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Prime Minister’s statement was disgraceful. Pitting Parliament against the people in the current environment is dangerous and reckless. Yesterday her government attacked their civil servants. Now she’s attacking the MPs whose votes she needs. It will have cost her support</p><p>I think democracy loses when a prime minister who set herself against the House of Commons and then blames MPs for doing their job. </p><p>And this is particularly worrying given she knows MPs are receiving hate mail in their inboxes. Some MPs are receiving death threats.</p><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Of course, the logic of Theresa May’s assertion that Parliament’s indecision is frustrating the will of the people is to put the issue back to the people and let them decide. If she is confident that the people back her, what’s stopping her?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2019/mar/21/brexit-latest-news-eu-summit-article-50-extension-theresa-may-appeal-to-nation-backfires-as-mps-accuse-her-of-stoking-hate-politics-live">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:12:53 +0100WASHINGTON POST: South Sudan spends millions on cars, homes instead of peacehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/south-sudan-spends-millions-on-cars-homes-instead-of-peace/2019/03/21/e0ea9410-4bb8-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
South Sudan spends millions on cars, home renovations instead of peace, internal reports showThu, 21 Mar 2019 10:10:14 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Skeptical EU leaders to hear May’s plea for a Brexit delayhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/skeptical-eu-leaders-to-hear-mays-plea-for-a-brexit-delay/2019/03/21/0515bed2-4bb9-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Prime Minister Theresa May is trying to persuade European Union leaders to delay Brexit by up to three months, just eight days before Britain is scheduled to leave the blocThu, 21 Mar 2019 10:09:24 +0100NEW YORK POST: Australia moving 2,000 people from powerful cyclone’s pathhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/australia-moving-2000-people-from-powerful-cyclones-path/
SYDNEY — About 2,000 Australians were being moved inland Thursday from part of the northern coast ahead of a powerful cyclone expected to hit this weekend. Evacuees were being moved by air and road from remote, mostly indigenous communities on the east coast of the Northern Territory, with most going to the provincial capital, Darwin....Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:05:43 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: Pakistan rescues four Iranian soldiers from militant group: armyhttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1470221/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">AFP</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553158989000372400</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 08:51</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has rescued four Iranian soldiers being held captive by a militant group in the country’s restive southwest, the military said in a statement Thursday.<br />
The rescue took place in Chaghi district of Balochistan province, near the Afghan border, the statement said.<br />
“Terrorists of a proscribed organization were reported to have entered Pakistan from Afghanistan side along with abducted Iranian soldiers,” it said.<br />
“After exchange of fire, four Iranian soldiers (were) recovered,” it continued.<br />
The statement said the soldiers were being handed over to Iranian authorities, though it did not say when. It also did not say what date the rescue took place, or name the group holding the soldiers.<br />
The incident comes months after the Sunni militantn group Jaish Al-Adl abducted 12 Iranian security personnel in October last year near the border.<br />
Five of them were later released and handed back to Iran by Islamabad.<br />
Relations between Pakistan and Iran recently suffered another blow after Tehran said a Pakistani suicide bomber was behind a February 13 attack that killed 27 Revolutionary Guards in its volatile southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.<br />
Jaish Al-Adl, which Tehran says operates mostly out of bases in Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the blast.</p>
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U.S.-backed Syrian fighters said they were still searching territory captured from Islamic State at its final enclave in eastern Syria on Thursday and denied a report the jihadists had been finally defeated.<div class="feedflare">
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<p>Tens of thousands still trapped by floodwaters as rescue teams in Mozambique race against clock to deliver aid and supplies</p><p>New satellite images taken above the Mozambican port city of Beira show the vast scale of flooding there, as rescuers race to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/cyclone-idai-rising-flood-levels-threaten-mozambique-disaster-relief-effort">reach tens of thousands of people trapped by floodwaters</a> from Cylcone Idai.</p><p>The images released by the European Space Agency show a huge new inland “lake” measuring 125km by 25km.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/cyclone-idai-satellite-images-show-extent-of-flooding-around-beira">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:00:27 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: The Kingdom and the Kushners: Jared Went to Riyadh. So Did His Brother.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/world/middleeast/kushner-saudi-arabia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Jared Kushner, presidential adviser, and Josh Kushner, venture capitalist, both have ties to Saudi Arabia. Critics say that raises ethical questions.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:00:11 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): The Sunhak Peace Prize Committee is accepting nominations for the 4th Sunhak Peace Prizehttp://tass.com/press-releases/1049776
Call for Nominations for the 4th Sunhak Peace PrizeThu, 21 Mar 2019 10:00:00 +0100BBC: R. Kelly asks judge for permission to play Dubai concertshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47650253
The embattled singer surrendered his passport last month and faces 10 charges of sexual abuse.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:58:09 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): San Marino does not impose sanctions against Russia, opposed to such stepshttp://tass.com/world/1049755
On March 21, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is beginning the first ever visit in the history of diplomatic relations to the enclaved Republic of San MarinoThu, 21 Mar 2019 09:56:32 +0100CNBC: Stocks have room to run — but the global economy must pick up first, says JP Morganhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/stocks-have-room-to-run-but-the-global-economy-must-pick-up-jp-morgan.html
J.P. Morgan says there&#039;s still room for a global run-up in equities — but &quot;the most important thing&quot; is whether the world economy responds to efforts to spur its growth.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:53:00 +0100The Hindu International: At least six killed in explosions in Kabul during Persian new year festivalhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/many-killed-in-explosions-in-kabul-during-persian-new-year-festival/article26597989.ece
Multiple explosions in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday killed six people and wounded 23 in an attack during celebrations to mark the PersianThu, 21 Mar 2019 09:52:41 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Two jets force US' B-52 bomber to move away from Russian borderhttp://tass.com/defense/1049759
The Defense Ministry reported that the B-52 was flying over international waters of the Baltic SeaThu, 21 Mar 2019 09:51:33 +0100REUTERS: In post-coup election, Thai rice, rubber farmers rethink old dividehttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/e9aeD8YjG8E/in-post-coup-election-thai-rice-rubber-farmers-rethink-old-divide-idUKKCN1R20RG
In the rice-growing heartland of Thailand's northeast, Kamol Suanpanya, 80, meets in the off season with fellow farmers at a community centre, where they discuss Sunday's election, the first after nearly five years of military rule.<div class="feedflare">
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There was no immediate word on casualties from the blast in Jiangsu Province, but videos online showed people who appeared to have been cut by glass and other debris.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:44:04 +0100WASHINGTON POST: US trade negotiators to visit China for talks next weekhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/us-trade-negotiators-to-visit-china-for-talks-next-week/2019/03/21/ab431656-4bb4-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
China’s commerce ministry says U.S. officials will be in Beijing next week for the next round of high-level trade talksThu, 21 Mar 2019 09:38:16 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Moscow and Tokyo just beginning their journey to peace treaty, says Russian diplomathttp://tass.com/politics/1049758
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:37:10 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Pakistan sentences 2 men to life terms in 2017 student deathhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pakistan-sentences-2-men-to-life-terms-in-2017-student-death/2019/03/21/fb841c88-4bb3-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Pakistani court sentences 2 men to life in prison over 2017 killing of university student falsely accused of blasphemyThu, 21 Mar 2019 09:33:21 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Trina Solar rolls out four new series of moduleshttp://tass.com/press-releases/1049767
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:30:00 +0100REUTERS: Reliance sends fuel from India, Europe to Venezuela to sidestep U.S. sanctionshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/aU1ywB1y5uo/reliance-sends-fuel-from-india-europe-to-venezuela-to-sidestep-u-s-sanctions-idUKKCN1R12VT
India's Reliance Industries is selling fuels to Venezuela from India and Europe to sidestep sanctions that bar U.S.-based companies from dealing with state-run PDVSA, according to trading sources and Refinitiv Eikon data.<div class="feedflare">
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An incorrect name was listed on a court document charging the suspect with murder, but legal experts said the mistake would not impede prosecution in the mass shooting.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:25:36 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: New Zealand Police Listed Wrong Person as Killed in Mosque Shootinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/world/asia/new-zealand-christchurch-wrong-victim.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
An incorrect name was listed on a court document charging the suspect with murder, but legal experts said the mistake would not impede prosecution in the mass shooting.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:25:36 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): ECHR rejects Jehovah's Witnesses request on interim measures after torture claimshttp://tass.com/world/1049749
According to the ECHR’s practice, interim measures are urgent measures that apply only where there is "an imminent risk of irreparable harm"Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:24:32 +0100The Guardian: NT to pass new youth justice laws that contradict Don Dale findingshttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/nt-to-pass-new-youth-justice-laws-that-contradict-don-dale-findings
<p>Northern Territory laws to clarify how and when guards can use force, restraints and isolation on children</p><p>The Northern Territory is set to pass controversial youth justice laws that clarify how and when guards can use force, restraints and “separation” (isolation) on children in its two detention centres, Don Dale and Alice Springs.</p><p>“This is about backing our frontline staff and their ability to make decisions under difficult circumstances,” the territory families minister, Dale Wakefield, told NT parliament on Thursday morning.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/nt-to-pass-new-youth-justice-laws-that-contradict-don-dale-findings">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:17:56 +0100The Guardian: Hotel owner released on bail after deaths at St Patrick's Day discohttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/hotel-owner-released-bail-deaths-st-patricks-day-disco-county-tyrone
<p>Michael McElhatton arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after deaths of three teenagers in County Tyrone</p><p>A hotel owner arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after three teenagers died outside a St Patrick’s Day disco in Northern Ireland has been released on bail.</p><p>Lauren Bullock, 17, Connor Currie, 16, and Morgan Barnard, 17, died after a crush at the Greenvale hotel in Cookstown, County Tyrone, on Sunday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/hotel-owner-released-bail-deaths-st-patricks-day-disco-county-tyrone">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:16:09 +0100CNBC: 10-year Treasury yield falls to 14-month low, signaling possible trouble with economyhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/us-bonds-jobless-numbers-in-focus.html
The 10-year Treasury yield returned to its lowest level since January 2018 after the Fed hinted it won&#039;t need to hike rates again this year.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:16:00 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: Gallery: The best photos from around the worldhttps://www.smh.com.au/world/gallery-the-best-photos-from-around-the-world-20190321-h1cnsn.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
The best photos from around the world as chosen by our Picture Editors.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:14:57 +0100REUTERS: South Korea arrests two for spy cameras that livestreamed 1,600 motel guestshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/n_3AK_AxaTg/south-korea-arrests-two-for-spy-cameras-that-livestreamed-1600-motel-guests-idUKKCN1R20OL
South Korean police have arrested two men for using illegal spy cameras at motels to film and livestream videos of about 1,600 guests, raking in roughly 7 million won (£4,717) over the past three months, police said on Wednesday.<div class="feedflare">
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The Ukrainian presidential election is scheduled to take place on March 31Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:10:47 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Thousands still need rescuing as aid agencies struggle with cyclone aftermath in Mozambiquehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/thousands-still-need-rescuing-as-aid-agencies-struggle-with-cyclone-aftermath-in-mozambique/2019/03/21/c5b2eaba-4b51-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Six days after the cyclone made landfall aid agencies still lack the boats and aircraft to rescue those stranded by the water.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:08:55 +0100REUTERS: Explainer - Numbers game: How Thailand's election system favours pro-army partieshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/w-72PgPxCJ4/explainer-numbers-game-how-thailands-election-system-favours-pro-army-parties-idUKKCN1R20O5
Thailand goes to the polls on Sunday under a new system that critics say the military government has devised to prevent the most popular political party, which has won every election since 2001, from returning to power.<div class="feedflare">
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China's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that China has lodged stern representations with the United States over Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's visit to Hawaii next week on a tour of diplomatic allies in the Pacific.<div class="feedflare">
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Theresa May's attendance at the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday was supposed to be the final appearance of a British Prime Minister in the European club before Brexit took place next week.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/jDFmFdlRVQo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:55:59 +0100REUTERS: Timeline: Yemen's slide into political crisis and warhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/Wh1jIvMsV_4/timeline-yemens-slide-into-political-crisis-and-war-idUKKCN1R20HE
Yemen's warring parties have failed to leave the main port city of Hodeidah three months after agreeing to a breakthrough U.N.-led truce deal as part of efforts to end a four-year-old war that has pushed the country to the brink of famine.<div class="feedflare">
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<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">AP</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553154080990197800</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 07:39</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
BEIJING: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen left Thursday on a tour of diplomatic allies in the Pacific that will end with a stopover in Hawaii.<br />
Taiwan has struggled to shore up its dwindling roster of allies as countries are choosing instead to establish relations with Beijing, which considers the self-governing island part of Chinese territory.<br />
Tsai will visit Palau, Nauru and the Marshall Islands, Taiwan’s official Central News Agency reported.<br />
The agency said she will transit through Hawaii on March 27 on her way back from the Marshall Islands, but did not give further details.<br />
Only 17 mainly small, developing countries still recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation. The island split from mainland China amid a civil war in 1949. Beijing has recently ratcheted up its rhetoric around “re-unifying” democratically governed Taiwan with Communist Party-ruled mainland China.<br />
China is particularly sensitive to cooperation between Taiwan and the US When the latter approved the sale of $330 million of military equipment to Taiwan last September, China warned of “severe damage” to bilateral relations.<br />
Ahead of a similar stopover in Hawaii in 2017, China demanded that the US bar Tsai from transiting through in order to “avoid sending any erroneous messages to the Taiwan independence force.”</p>
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The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) denied a report on Thursday that all of Islamic State's final enclave has been captured after a Kurdish media outlet said the jihadist group had been finally defeated there.<div class="feedflare">
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The Jordanian leadership has opened the Nasib border crossing on the Syrian border, thus enabling more than 100,000 Syrians to come back to SyriaThu, 21 Mar 2019 08:39:42 +0100REUTERS: Kazakh police disperse protest against renaming of capitalhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/6YIMNY8-Lds/kazakh-police-disperse-protest-against-renaming-of-capital-idUKKCN1R20KW
Kazakh police detained about 20 people on Thursday who protested against the renaming of the Central Asian country's capital city after ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev, the first decision taken by his successor, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.<div class="feedflare">
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At a cemetery in western Ukraine, a tall, grey-haired man lights candles and kisses the gravestone of his 35-year-old brother Taras, whose death, he said, changed his mind about who should win this month's presidential election.<div class="feedflare">
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Yemen's warring parties have failed to leave the main port city of Hodeidah three months after agreeing to a breakthrough U.N.-led truce deal as part of efforts to end a four-year-old war that has pushed the country to the brink of famine.<div class="feedflare">
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<p>Vibrant youth culture and a flourishing music scene leap out of the west African photographer’s Peuple de la Nuit, featuring the musicians, dancers and lovers who graced his hometown’s hottest venues</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/mar/21/ibrahima-sanle-sory-burkina-faso-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:00:16 +0100The Guardian: Holi: a festival of colours – in pictureshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2019/mar/21/holi-a-festival-of-colours-in-pictures
<p>The Hindu festival of Holi is under way in India. The two-day celebration signifies the victory of good over evil and marks the end of winter and the arrival of spring. Its origins can be found in Hindu mythology, while the use of colour is tied to stories about Lord Krishna</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2019/mar/21/holi-a-festival-of-colours-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:00:13 +0100The Guardian: Danish billionaires plan to rewild large swath of Scottish Highlandshttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/danish-billionaires-anders-and-anne-holch-povlsen-say-plan-is-to-restore-scottish-highlands
<p>Scotland’s largest private landowners want to reverse years of land mismanagement, says adviser</p><p>The Danish billionaires who are now Scotland’s largest private landowners are trying to restore the Highlands for generations to come, one of their closest advisers has said.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/20/report-calls-for-reform-of-unhealthy-land-ownership-in-scotland">Report calls for reform of 'unhealthy' land ownership in Scotland</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/danish-billionaires-anders-and-anne-holch-povlsen-say-plan-is-to-restore-scottish-highlands">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:00:11 +0100REUTERS: New Zealand bans military type semi-automatic weapons used in mosque massacrehttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/dS3eSqWISEo/new-zealand-bans-military-type-semi-automatic-weapons-used-in-mosque-massacre-idUKKCN1R2029
New Zealand will ban military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles under tough new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country's worst mass shooting, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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The decision stems from Volodin's statements and the State Duma’s decision to set up a working group to analyze Ukraine’s damage to Crimea and SevastopolThu, 21 Mar 2019 07:53:14 +0100REUTERS: Explosions in Afghan capital Kabul kill six during new year festivalhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/u4d68oDwWiY/explosions-in-afghan-capital-kabul-kill-six-during-new-year-festival-idUKKCN1R20DQ
Multiple explosions in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday killed six people and wounded 23 in an attack during celebrations to mark the Persian new year, government spokesmen said.<div class="feedflare">
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U.S. President Donald Trump has on several occasions hit out at the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates, claiming that such an action was harmful to the U.S. economy.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:52:00 +0100REUTERS: Zimbabwe raises public workers pay by 29 percent, averts strike for nowhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/n4I9PTjC8xI/zimbabwe-raises-public-workers-pay-by-29-percent-averts-strike-for-now-idUKKCN1R20FX
Zimbabwe's public workers have accepted a 29 percent salary hike for the lowest paid employees, which the government says will cushion them against double-digit inflation, unions said on Thursday, and likely averting a strike in the interim.<div class="feedflare">
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South Korean police say they’ve arrested four people on suspicion of secretly filming about 1,600 guests in hotel rooms and posting or streaming the footage on the internetThu, 21 Mar 2019 07:49:23 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Taiwan leader tours Pacific allies, with Hawaii stopoverhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/taiwan-leader-tours-pacific-allies-with-hawaii-stopover/2019/03/21/df7c2e40-4ba4-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen is visiting her island’s diplomatic allies in the Pacific on a tour that will end with a stopover in HawaiiThu, 21 Mar 2019 07:45:11 +0100REUTERS: Special Report - Shattered sanctuary: In Christchurch, an imam seeks to rebuildhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/WCvaUF2VVyw/special-report-shattered-sanctuary-in-christchurch-an-imam-seeks-to-rebuild-idUKKCN1R20DW
Ibrahim Abdelhalim was at his mosque last week in the Linwood neighbourhood of Christchurch, New Zealand, delivering a prayer as he usually does on Friday afternoons. The 67-year-old grandfather had already spoken about "tasting the sweetness of faith" as a Muslim obedient to God and willing to serve humanity.<div class="feedflare">
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Residents and officials in Crimea have been staging events this week to mark the fifth anniversary of Russia’s forceful annexation of the region from Ukraine.
The United States and its allies imposed wide-ranging sanctions on Moscow following the invasion. Analysts say the economic impact is denting approval ratings for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Thousands of heavily armed fighters, dubbed “little green men” for their anonymous uniforms, stormed Ukrainian military installations and government buildings in February 2014. The fighters were clearly backed by Russia, but Moscow denied involvement.
On March 16, 2014, the new de facto authorities staged a referendum in which they claimed more than 95 percent of voters chose to return Crimea to Russian control. Putin hailed the annexation.
“After a hard, long, tiring trip, Crimea and Sevastopol are returning to their home port, to their native shore, homeward, to Russia,” Putin said in a ceremony in Moscow’s Red Square five years ago to mark the annexation, just weeks after the country hosted athletes from around the world at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
WATCH: Crimea Marks Anniversary of Russian Annexation
Putin returned to Crimea this week and praised the progress made.
New power stations have been built. A new bridge links Crimea to the Russian mainland, its limited height restricts shipping into Ukrainian ports. A rail service is to begin this year.
Crimea residents appear supportive.
“Well, it’s all good. Giant construction sites everywhere, you can see that,” one resident told VOA this month.
​Political cost
In the aftermath of the Crimean invasion, Putin’s approval ratings soared. They are now falling fast.
The U.S., Europe and several allies imposed economic sanctions in Moscow. Russian political analyst Maria Lipman said the economic noose has tightened.
“The Crimea syndrome, or Crimea consensus, is wearing out quite visibly,” Lipman said. “The announcement of the pension reform, and the raise of the retirement age, was a trigger when people began to realize — not that they hadn’t realized before — but they really began to feel that things were not right.”
Ukraine is about to hold presidential elections. The leading candidates have pledged to continue Kyiv’s path toward European Union and NATO membership.
So, could Putin attempt further military action? Unlikely, said Vladislav Inozemtsev, director of the Moscow-based Center for Post-Industrial Studies.
“Russian politics is much exhausted with Ukraine. I definitely exclude any kind of military intervention, the closure of the Azov Sea, or military provocations in Donbas,” he said.
The U.S. and the European Union said this week that Crimea will always be considered part of Ukraine.
Critics say the West’s failure to confront Russia more robustly in 2014 led to Moscow’s intervention in other conflicts, including in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and in Syria.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:41:28 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Aid group: Migrants held in Libya suffer from malnutritionhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/aid-group-migrants-held-in-libya-suffer-from-malnutrition/2019/03/21/13b2499e-4ba3-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
International charity says dozens of migrants suffering from malnutrition in detention center in Libya’s capitalThu, 21 Mar 2019 07:36:10 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: Three explosions target Shiite shrine in Kabul: Afghan officialhttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1470176/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">AP</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553149845110047900</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 06:17</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
KABUL: Multiple explosions in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday killed six people and wounded 23 in an attack during celebrations to mark the Persian new year, government spokesmen said.</p>
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The attacks came on Nowruz, an ancient Persian festival to mark the start of spring that is widely celebrated in many parts of Afghanistan but has also faced opposition from some hard-line Islamists, who say it is un-Islamic.</p>
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There were conflicting reports about of the cause of the blasts near the Kart-e Sakhi shrine, in a heavily Shiite Muslim area in the west of Kabul.</p>
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An interior ministry spokesman said mortar bombs had been fired. The defense ministry said in a post on twitter that three rockets were fired at civilian homes and Nowruz gatherings.</p>
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The defense ministry said police had arrested the attacker and secured the area.</p>
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Despite the rally in global equity markets, revenues in the first-quarter of 2019 was one of the worst in recent years, CEO of Swiss-bank UBS told CNBC.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:35:00 +0100REUTERS: Australian state poll threatens $2 billion coal seam gas projecthttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/tNuE1KoJZ0M/australian-state-poll-threatens-2-billion-coal-seam-gas-project-idUKKCN1R20DS
A $2 billion coal seam gas project that could ease a looming gas shortage in eastern Australia is at risk of becoming a casualty in a weekend election in the country's most populous state.<div class="feedflare">
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Multiple explosions in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday killed six people and wounded 23, a spokesman for the health ministry said.<div class="feedflare">
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New Zealand police revealed on Thursday that when they charged the mosque terror suspect with the murder of one individual — authorities inadvertently designated a person who is still alive as the sole deceased victim. Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, was charged with a single, representative count of murder after 50 people were killed in Friday&#8217;s...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:31:27 +0100The Guardian: Thursday briefing: May's Brexit broadsidehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/thursday-briefing-mays-brexit-broadside
<p>PM to voters: ‘You want this over and done with – I agree’ … New Zealand bans assault rifles and semi-automatics … and what ‘kiss my chuddies’ means</p><p>Good morning, it’s Warren Murray breaking the news fast (works on two levels right?).</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/thursday-briefing-mays-brexit-broadside">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:30:38 +0100The Guardian: Marseille falls apart: why is France's second city crumbling?https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/21/marseille-falls-apart-why-is-frances-second-city-crumbling
<p>Marseille is facing its biggest crisis in decades as many of its historic buildings-turned-slums are collapsing, with often tragic results</p><p>In her flat in a decrepit 18th-century building in the centre of Marseille, Samira ran her hand over a crack in her kitchen wall. “I worry my building is slowly caving in,” she said. “I’m scared we’ll end up buried alive.”</p><p>The stone staircase up to other damp apartments was sloping and wonky and residents felt that it moved as they used it. A crack in one wall was so deep, daylight seeped through. A burly teenager on an upper floor had been regularly told by his father not to step on parts of the increasingly uneven kitchen floor, which he feared was subsiding. Samira’s bathroom ceiling was sodden with mould and damp. After dark, rats made so much noise in her kitchen that it sounded as if she was being burgled.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/21/marseille-falls-apart-why-is-frances-second-city-crumbling">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:30:14 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: Explosions target Shiite shrine in Kabul: officialhttps://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/explosions-target-shiite-shrine-in-kabul-official-20190321-p516c7.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
An official says three explosions struck near a Shiite shrine and cemetery in as people gathered to mark the Persian New Year.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:28:58 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: New Zealand to Ban Military-Style Semiautomatic Guns, Jacinda Ardern Sayshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/asia/new-zealand-gun-ban.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The announcement on Thursday from New Zealand’s prime minister came less than a week after a massacre at two mosques in Christchurch.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:28:50 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Pompeo heads to Lebanon, where Hezbollah is at peak strengthhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/pompeo-heads-to-lebanon-where-hezbollah-is-at-peak-strength/2019/03/21/1fdc902c-4ba2-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
US Secretary of State Pompeo’s Lebanon visit to underscore Trump administration’s displeasure over Hezbollah gainsThu, 21 Mar 2019 07:28:26 +0100The Guardian: 'I've never seen anything like it': street library sparks joy for Tony Abbotthttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/ive-never-seen-anything-like-it-abbotts-ode-to-amazing-street-library-mocked
<p>Former prime minister’s discovery while door-knocking in his electorate becomes a ready-made meme </p><p>On Tango Avenue, a quiet street in the hills between Dee Why’s main drag and the coast, Australia’s former prime minister and current <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/12/tony-abbott-has-not-changed-not-even-the-speedo-pose-looks-different">advocate for beachside toilets</a> has been door-knocking – and he has discovered something wonderful.</p><p>“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” he says to camera in a video he has posted online.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/ive-never-seen-anything-like-it-abbotts-ode-to-amazing-street-library-mocked">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:28:12 +0100CNBC: US allies defy Trump administration's plea to ban Huawei from 5G networkshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/future-of-5g-us-allies-defy-washingtons-please-to-ban-huawei.html
Countries including Germany and Thailand have not banned Huawei from their 5G networks despite the U.S. government urging allies to do so.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:25:00 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: Burundi schoolgirls jailed for doodling on president’s photohttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1470166/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">AFP</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553148871130022300</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 06:11</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
NAIROBI: Three teenage schoolgirls in Burundi have been sent to prison to await trial for scribbling on a picture of President Pierre Nkurunziza in textbooks, activists said Thursday.<br />
The girls, aged 15, 16 and 17, face up to five years in prison for insulting the head of state if found guilty.<br />
Judges said the three girls should be “prosecuted for contempt of the head of state,” and ordered them to a juvenile section of a prison in the north of Burundi at Ngozi to await trial, said FENADEB, a civil society umbrella group of 48 organizations.<br />
The trio has been in custody since March 12, when they were arrested with three other schoolgirls and a 13-year old boy. The boy was released immediately because he was below the age of criminal responsibility, while the three girls were released without charge.<br />
The girls are accused of defacing photographs of Nkurunziza in five textbooks belonging to their school, but teachers pointed out that the books are shared among all the pupils as there are not enough for everyone to have their own.<br />
A judicial source, who called the case “very sensitive” and said it was overseen directly by the Attorney General, reported that the girls arrived at the prison on Wednesday afternoon.<br />
It was not clear when they might face trial, but the father of one of the girls said they were already “too scared to eat,” according to Lewis Mudge, from Human Rights Watch (HRW).<br />
In 2016, several schoolchildren were handed prison sentences for similar scribbles on the president’s face, and hundreds of pupils expelled, sparking an international outcry.<br />
Burundi has been in turmoil since Nkurunziza in April 2015 sought a fiercely-contested third term in office.<br />
The violence has claimed at least 1,200 lives and displaced more than 400,000 people between April 2015 and May 2017, according to estimates by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has opened an investigation.<br />
“With so many real crimes being committed in Burundi, it’s tragic that children are the ones being prosecuted for harmless scribbles,” HRW’s Mudge added.<br />
“Authorities should focus on holding perpetrators of serious rights violations to account instead of jailing schoolchildren for doodles.”</p>
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Afghan official: 3 explosions hit Shiite shrine, cemetery in western Kabul on holiday of Nowruz, or Persian New YearThu, 21 Mar 2019 07:20:19 +0100REUTERS: Boeing, FAA face more pressure from U.S. lawmakers over 737 MAX accidentshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/bxK32kvyyTo/boeing-faa-face-more-pressure-from-u-s-lawmakers-over-737-max-accidents-idUKKCN1R20CY
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<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Reuters</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553148601780013900</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 06:06</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
SHANGHAI: China’s average concentrations of lung-damaging particles known as PM2.5 rose by 5.2 percent in the first two months of the year, the environment ministry said on Thursday, casting doubt over the country’s ability to meet winter targets.<br />
The nation’s average PM2.5 readings came in at 61 micrograms per cubic meter for January and February, according to a Ministry of Ecology and Environment survey of 337 cities, with only 83 reaching the national standard of 35 micrograms.<br />
Levels of PM2.5 at 28 cities in the key pollution control region of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei soared 24 percent over the two-month period from the same time a year ago to an average of 108 micrograms, more than 10 times 10 micrograms recommended as safe by the World Health Organization.<br />
Meanwhile, PM2.5 levels in the 11 cities of the Fenwei Plain, another major smog control zone, surged by 26.6 percent over the period, hitting an average of 119 micrograms.<br />
China forced smog-prone northern cities to implement special emissions restrictions from October 2018 to March 2019 in order to offset rising levels of coal combustion from state heating systems during the winter.<br />
But Reuters calculations based on official data showed that PM2.5 readings in the 39 key northern cities still rose 13 percent over the October-February period.<br />
The 39 cities are under pressure to make year-on-year PM2.5 cuts of around 3 percent from October to March, but Reuters calculations show that only three — Changzhi and Luliang in Shanxi province, and Jining in Shandong — were on course to meet their targets at the end of last month.<br />
The government has previously blamed unfavorable weather conditions for the poor air quality over the period, saying that “a weak El Nino effect” and a subsequent increase in temperature and humidity has made it harder to disperse emissions.<br />
The ministry has promised to crack down on regions that fail to meet targets, regardless of weather conditions, but it remains unclear what punishments they will face.<br />
The provinces of Hebei and Shanxi, where eight of China’s smoggiest cities were located in 2018, have established a “punishment and reward system” in which the worst-performing districts pay fines to regions that have performed the best.<br />
On Wednesday, Hebei published a list of 14 districts that failed to meet 2018 targets, including major industrial zones in Tangshan, China’s biggest steel-producing city.<br />
Communist Party bosses from each of the 14 districts were summoned to the provincial environmental protection bureau to receive public criticism, the provincial government said in a notice.</p>
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The gold went to China’s Wenjing Sui and Cong HanThu, 21 Mar 2019 07:04:33 +0100The Guardian: Foreign students who stay to work in UK pay £3.2bn in taxes – studyhttps://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/21/foreign-students-who-stay-work-uk-pay-32bn-taxes-study
<p>Report finds highly qualified, non-British graduates do not take jobs from local residents</p><p>International students who stay and work in the UK after graduation contribute £3.2bn in extra tax revenues, research has revealed.</p><p>The first major report into the boost overseas students give the economy found non-UK graduates do not take jobs from local residents, because they largely obtain work in highly qualified areas such as economics or science, or in sectors that suffer acute shortages, such as teaching and nursing.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/21/foreign-students-who-stay-work-uk-pay-32bn-taxes-study">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:01:09 +0100The Guardian: Chicago's Democratic socialists on brink of transforming city's politicshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/chicago-democratic-socialists-city-council-rossana-rodriguez
<p>Six Democratic socialists may join city council this year, reflecting the progressive momentum in national politics</p><p>Democratic socialist Rossana Rodriguez never thought she would run for office, let alone win.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/26/america-midterms-democrats-socialism-bernie-sanders">Lean left: is America ready for a wave of Bernie Sanders-inspired socialists?</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/chicago-democratic-socialists-city-council-rossana-rodriguez">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:00:23 +0100The Guardian: How to move a masterpiece: the secret business of shipping priceless artworkshttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/21/how-to-move-a-masterpiece-secret-business-shipping-priceless-artworks-art-handling
<p>What happens when a forklift goes through your Picasso? By Andrew Dickson</p><p>Early one morning last summer, I stood inside a museum in Antwerp and watched as a painting was hung on the wall. When I walked in, the gallery was empty. To one side, there was a crate about a metre square. Royal blue, it was unmarked apart from a code number and a yellow stencilled sign reading “Lato da Aprire / Open this Side”. Although its home is nominally Florence, the painting inside was a seasoned traveller: it had arrived the night before from Sicily, by road and under armed guard. The box looked entirely unremarkable. That was the point, I was told.</p><p>Abruptly, there was a commotion: the curator of the exhibition, a visiting curator, a translator, an expert in Renaissance art, plus a clutch of hangers-on, burst through the doors. Two art handlers wearing gloves and sober expressions strode over to a table; on it, pliers, tape measures, and an electric screwdriver had been placed with a precision that would not have been out of place in an operating theatre.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/21/how-to-move-a-masterpiece-secret-business-shipping-priceless-artworks-art-handling">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:00:20 +0100The Guardian: UN Libya envoy hopes reconciliation talks will bring stabilityhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/un-libya-envoy-hopes-reconciliation-talks-will-bring-stability
<p>Ghassan Salamé warns conference failure will bring more violence to divided country</p><p>The United Nations will stage a long-awaited national reconciliation conference in the Libyan town of Ghadames on 14-16 April, but there are growing signs that the military strongman Khalifa Haftar is capable of taking control of the country by force, including the capital, Tripoli.</p><p>The UN special envoy Ghassan Salamé said that all Libya’s political groups had been invited to the the conference, which he described as the “beginning of a new road for the country”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/un-libya-envoy-hopes-reconciliation-talks-will-bring-stability">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:00:12 +0100The Guardian: Oxford English Dictionary adds new entries: chuddies, jibbons and fantooshhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/21/oxford-english-dictionary-adds-new-entries-chuddies-jibbons-and-fantoosh
<p>An Indian English word for underpants joins a host of Scottish insults after the dictionary crowdsourced regional terms</p><p>English speakers from around the world have flocked to help the Oxford English Dictionary expand its coverage of regional vocabulary, with a new update including suggestions such as jibbons, chuddies and sitooterie.</p><p>The dictionary <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/19/oxford-english-dictionary-extends-hunt-for-regional-words-around-the-world">launched its Words Where You Are appeal to the public last year</a> to mark the 90th anniversary of the completion of its first edition. The regional vocabulary suggestions which have poured in from readers ever since span the globe, from the Welsh English term for spring onions, “jibbons”, to the name for the regional dialect heard in New Orleans, “Yat”, which is derived from the greeting: “Where y’at?”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/21/oxford-english-dictionary-adds-new-entries-chuddies-jibbons-and-fantoosh">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:00:11 +0100The Guardian: Fraser Anning admits he knew he was striking a child over egginghttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/fraser-anning-admits-he-knew-he-was-striking-a-child-over-egging
<p>Senator acknowledges in supporter’s video that he recognised immediately the boy was a minor</p><p>Fraser Anning has admitted on video he knew the person who egged him was a child when he struck him twice in retaliation, saying the boy “deserved it”.</p><p>Victorian police are continuing to investigate the incident “in its entirety”, including the actions of the Queensland senator and the five crowd members involved in tackling and restraining the boy.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/fraser-anning-admits-he-knew-he-was-striking-a-child-over-egging">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:55:37 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Yemeni spokesman says rebels seek to ignite Hodeida fightinghttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/yemeni-spokesman-says-rebels-seek-to-ignite-hodeida-fighting/2019/03/21/0a8d58e6-4b9d-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Yemeni government spokesman: Rebels’ refusal to withdraw from key port city amount to ‘declaration of war’Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:49:08 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Indian billionaire arrested in London over alleged $2B fraudhttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/Y8MKBoSr7Jw/index.html
UK police have arrested India's billionaire diamond dealer Nirav Modi in London over his alleged involvement in a bank fraud that could be worth $2 billion.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/Y8MKBoSr7Jw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:47:59 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Australia moving 2,000 people from powerful cyclone’s pathhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/australia-moving-2000-people-from-powerful-cyclones-path/2019/03/21/c7a40f66-4b9c-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Australia is evacuating about 2,000 people from part of northern Australia ahead of a powerful cyclone expected to hit on SaturdayThu, 21 Mar 2019 06:47:15 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Human rights ombudsperson calls for ensuring fair trial for journalist jailed in Ukrainehttp://tass.com/politics/1049726
If found guilty, the journalist may face up to 15 yearsThu, 21 Mar 2019 06:46:56 +0100REUTERS: NZ bans military type semi-automatic weapons used in mosque massacrehttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/69Kf6RWmmyA/nz-bans-military-type-semi-automatic-weapons-used-in-mosque-massacre-idUKKCN1R2029
New Zealand will ban military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles under tough new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country's worst mass shooting, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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White House asks Pakistan to take more “concrete and sustained” actions to rein in terror groups.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:44:18 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: Trump fan to plead guilty to 2018 package bombshttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1470151/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">AFP</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553145755179953000</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 05:00</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
NEW YORK: A fan of US President Donald Trump who mailed parcel bombs to prominent Democratic figures last October was set to appear in court Thursday, where he was expected to plead guilty to some of the 30 charges against him.<br />
Cesar Sayoc, 57, who was arrested in Florida on October 26 following a massive manhunt, was due in federal court in New York at 4:00 p.m.<br />
Although it was not known which charges he would plead guilty to, all relate to the 16 package bombs he is accused of mailing from a Florida post office to several well-known people who oppose Trump, as well as the Manhattan offices of CNN. He previously pleaded not guilty to all counts.<br />
The packages’ intended recipients included billionaire philanthropist George Soros, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, former president Barack Obama, former vice president Joe Biden, actor Robert De Niro and several Democratic lawmakers, including 2020 presidential hopefuls Cory Booker and Kamala Harris.<br />
None of the packages exploded or even reached their targets and authorities questioned the actual danger they posed.<br />
But by targeting Democrats, Sayoc — who also goes by the alias Cesar Altieri and was identified by DNA recovered from the packages — helped contribute to heightened tensions during the US midterm election campaign season.<br />
Sayoc’s partial guilty plea Thursday could help mitigate the severity of a sentence if he is convicted on all counts.<br />
As his trial loomed, information from Sayoc’s past began to filter into the public sphere, fueling the debate about extremism in the age of Trump and social media — a debate that grew more urgent as 11 people were shot dead at a Pittsburgh synagogue later in October.<br />
Estranged from his family and in financial distress, Sayoc lived in a white van plastered in stickers proclaiming his admiration for the US president.<br />
His criminal record dates back to 1991, peppered with convictions for theft, fraud, violence and a threat to bomb his electric utility company.<br />
A former strip club manager and an adept bodybuilder and martial arts practitioner, Sayoc discovered a passion for Trump just as his political star was rising.<br />
His social media posts took a politically radical turn: he’s seen wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, sharing pro-Trump images and posting articles from ultra-conservative and conspiracy-driven websites such as Infowars and Breitbart.<br />
“He was very angry and angry at the world, at blacks, Jews, gays,” recalled Debra Gureghian, the general manager of a Florida pizzeria where Sayoc worked as a delivery driver for several months.<br />
Lawyer Ron Lowy, who defended Sayoc in 2002 and remained close to his family, described him on NPR in October as someone whose “intellect is limited, and who is “like a little boy in a man’s body.”</p>
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<p>New Zealand has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/new-zealand-brings-in-sweeping-gun-law-changes-in-wake-of-christchurch-attacks">banned military-style semi-automatic guns and assault rifles</a> under tough new laws following the attacks on two Christchurch mosques. The changes, announced on Thursday by the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, also include a gun buyback scheme. The gun-law changes were effective immediately.&nbsp;</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/mar/21/new-zealand-introduces-major-changes-to-gun-laws-video">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:31:22 +0100WASHINGTON POST: New Zealand police say they inadvertently charged mosque terror suspect with murder of person who is still alivehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/new-zealand-police-say-they-inadvertently-charged-mosque-terror-suspect-with-murder-of-person-who-is-still-alive/2019/03/21/89b52340-4b9a-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
New Zealand police say they inadvertently charged mosque terror suspect with murder of person who is still aliveThu, 21 Mar 2019 06:31:12 +0100NEW YORK POST: ‘Meteor’ flashing through LA sky turns out to be part of film shoothttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/meteor-flashing-through-la-sky-turns-out-to-be-part-of-film-shoot/
A fiery flash in the Los Angeles sky caused residents to fear that a meteor had landed in the city on Wednesday night — but the flying object was part of a film shoot. The display, which took place near the skyscape of downtown Los Angeles, was a pair of wingsuit flyers parachuting in as...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:25:28 +0100The Hindu International: U.S. envoy Khalilzad to hold talks with Russia, China and European Union on Afghanistanhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-envoy-khalilzad-to-hold-talks-with-russia-china-and-european-union-on-afghanistan/article26597561.ece
As part of his efforts to garner international support for ongoing peace talks with the Taliban, U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay KhalilzadThu, 21 Mar 2019 06:23:19 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russian human rights ombudsperson plans to visit UN General Assembly sessionhttp://tass.com/politics/1049719
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:21:32 +0100The Hindu International: Indian-American Neomi Rao sworn in as judge of powerful DC courthttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/indian-american-neomi-rao-sworn-in-as-judge-of-powerful-dc-court/article26597553.ece
Neomi Rao, 45, was sworn in by US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:13:48 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: Christchurch police charge mosque shooter over the wrong personhttps://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/christchurch-police-charge-mosque-shooter-over-the-wrong-person-20190321-p516a8.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
The police made a mistake: the woman whose name was used during the shooter's court appearance is still alive.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:07:46 +0100SKY NEWS: Rescue teams race to save hundreds trapped by Cyclone Idaihttp://news.sky.com/story/rescue-teams-race-to-save-hundreds-trapped-by-cyclone-idai-as-dec-launches-fundraising-appeal-11671398
Aid workers scrambled to get food and water to desperate survivors of the devastating cyclone that hit Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, as hundreds were still trapped by floods.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:07:00 +0100CNBC: South Korean semiconductor stocks surge on the back of Micron earningshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/south-korea-semiconductor-stock-movements-following-micron-earnings.html
Shares of semiconductors companies in South Korea soared during Thursday&#039;s trading session after earnings results from Micron.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:07:00 +0100REUTERS: Exclusive: U.S. may soon pause preparations for delivering F-35s to Turkeyhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/Zmh6sG6W_K0/exclusive-u-s-may-soon-pause-preparations-for-delivering-f-35s-to-turkey-idUKKCN1R20AR
The United States could soon freeze preparations for delivering F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, officials told Reuters, in what would be the strongest signal yet by Washington that Ankara cannot have both the advanced aircraft and Russia's S-400 air defence system.<div class="feedflare">
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A Connecticut man who pinned twin 8-year-old boys and a woman who tried to help them against a wall with his car last year has been sentenced to two years in prison. The Connecticut Post reports that 39-year-old Allen Pearson, of Stamford, was sentenced Wednesday on a second-degree assault conviction. Police say...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:05:36 +0100The Hindu International: Issues between India and Pakistan should be resolved bilaterally, says Vladimir Norovhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/issues-between-india-and-pakistan-should-be-resolved-bilaterally-says-scos-new-secretary-general-vladimir-norov/article26597523.ece
Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after a suicide bomber of terror group JeM killed 40 CRPF personnel in Pulwama.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:04:17 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: Cyclone Idai toll rises as rescue teams fight to reach victims in inland seahttps://www.smh.com.au/world/africa/cyclone-idai-toll-rises-as-rescue-teams-fight-to-reach-victims-in-inland-sea-20190321-p516af.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
Witnesses told of corpses floating down swollen rivers and aerial footage showed families perched on rooftops and in the upper branches of submerged trees days after Cyclone Idai tore through southern Africa.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:04:08 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Mozambique, Brexit, New Zealand: Your Thursday Briefinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/briefing/mozambique-brexit-new-zealand-your-thursday-briefing.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Let us help you start your day.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:00:44 +0100The Guardian: Slavery reparations: where do Democratic 2020 candidates stand?https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/reparations-slavery-2020-democratic-candidates
<p>Bernie Sanders is opposed, while Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker hesitate to voice outright support</p><ul><li><a href="https://theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/reparations-democrats-2020-slavery">The renewed Democratic debate over how to heal the legacy of slavery</a></li></ul><p>Should the US pay reparations to the descendants of slaves? The issue has been debated for years, but has now become a matter of discussion among the candidates vying for the Democratic party’s nomination for the 2020 presidential election. Here’s where they stand on the matter, so far:</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/reparations-slavery-2020-democratic-candidates">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:00:12 +0100The Guardian: 'It's a godsend': the healthcare scheme bringing hope to India's sickhttps://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/mar/21/godsend-healthcare-scheme-bringing-hope-india-sick-ayushman-bharat
<p>In a country where treatment can cost two years’ wages, a new project could mean free medical care for 500 million people</p><p>Rajiv Gupta has a distinct spring in his step. He has brought his mother to New Delhi from the northern state of Bihar for a hip replacement, for which he won’t have to pay. His mother qualified for free treatment under <a href="https://www.pmjay.gov.in/">Ayushman Bharat</a>, the government’s ambitious new health insurance scheme.</p><p>“I can’t quite believe this is happening. When the doctors in Bihar told me it would cost 200,000 rupees [£2,180], I took mum home. That kind of money is impossible for me. I just run a tiny sari shop. And now she’s getting it done here free,” says Gupta. Then he hurries off as though scared he has got it wrong and someone is going to present him with a bill.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/mar/21/godsend-healthcare-scheme-bringing-hope-india-sick-ayushman-bharat">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:00:10 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Trump’s advice on Brexit may be useless — or worsehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/worldviews/trumps-advice-on-brexit-may-be-useless--or-worse/2019/03/21/b2ef2d09-2045-4f77-9744-fee12aa576ec_story.html
Brexiteers should be glad that President Trump is not a master negotiator.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:59:50 +0100The Hindu International: Christchurch shootings: As more are buried, emotional prayer service planned in New Zealandhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/as-more-are-buried-emotional-prayer-service-planned-in-new-zealand/article26597459.ece
Six funerals took place on March 21, including for a teenager, a youth soccer coach and a Muslim convert who loved connecting with other women at the mosque.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:56:10 +0100BBC: Nicaragua agrees to free all opposition prisonershttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-47648088
The move is aimed at restarting stalled peace talks after months of anti-government protests.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:48:13 +0100NEW YORK POST: College testing program that would allow alcohol in dormshttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/college-testing-program-that-would-allow-alcohol-in-dorms/
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — Students at Central Connecticut State University are testing a new pilot program allowing of-age students to have alcoholic beverages in their dorm rooms. CCSU sophomore Nicky Florestal says the idea could bring more students on campus. School Student Affairs Vice President Michael Jasek tells WVIT-TV that the program could help to...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:45:33 +0100The Guardian: Queensland woman who took daughters to Somalia for genital mutilation jailedhttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/queensland-woman-who-took-daughters-to-somalia-for-genital-mutilation-jailed
<p>Woman is the first person to be sentenced in Queensland for removing a child from the state for female genital mutilation</p><p>An extremely sick Queensland woman who took her two daughters to Somalia for genital mutilation will go to prison as a deterrent to others.</p><p>The woman, who cannot be named to protect the identities of her children, was found guilty of taking her daughters, then aged 10 and 13, to her birth country in April 2015 for the procedure.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/queensland-woman-who-took-daughters-to-somalia-for-genital-mutilation-jailed">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:40:42 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: 'It's not about being famous': meet Thailand's first transgender PM candidatehttps://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/it-s-not-about-being-famous-meet-thailand-s-first-transgender-pm-candidate-20190321-p5166d.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
Pinit Ngarmpring had a long, successful career in journalism, business and football. A few years ago, she became Pauline Ngarmpring. And now she wants to be prime minister.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:26:04 +0100Voice of Europe: Crimea Marks Anniversary Of Russian Annexation, As Western Sanctions Tighten Griphttps://www.voanews.com/a/crimea-marks-anniversary-of-russian-annexation-as-western-sanctions-tighten-grip/4840705.html
This week marks the fifth anniversary of Russia’s forceful annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea. The United States and its allies imposed wide-ranging sanctions on Moscow following the invasion – and analysts say the economic impact is denting approval ratings for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as Henry Ridgwell reports.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:19:00 +0100NEW YORK POST: Auschwitz to visitors: Stop posing on the railroad trackshttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/auschwitz-to-visitors-stop-posing-on-the-railroad-tracks/
The Auschwitz memorial on Wednesday urged visitors to stop posing for photos on the railroad tracks outside of the former concentration camp. A number of tourists have recently posted photos of themselves balancing on the tracks outside the Auschwitz Memorial Museum, the museum said on Twitter. &#8220;When you come to @AuschwitzMuseum remember you are at...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:17:30 +0100BBC: Dutch PM loses senate majority to populists - exit pollhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47648086
The anti-immigration Forum for Democracy looks set to be the second biggest party in the upper house.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:16:12 +0100The Guardian: New Zealand brings in sweeping gun-law changes in wake of Christchurch attackshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/new-zealand-brings-in-sweeping-gun-law-changes-in-wake-of-christchurch-attacks
<p>Bans on assault rifles and military-style semi-automatics introduced as well as a buyback scheme<br></p><p>Assault rifles and military-style semi-automatics have been banned in New Zealand after Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister, announced sweeping and immediate changes to gun laws following the Christchurch mosque shootings.</p><p>“I absolutely believe there will be a common view amongst New Zealanders, those who use guns for legitimate purposes, and those who have never touched one, that the time for the mass and easy availability of these weapons must end. And today they will,” said Ardern.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/new-zealand-brings-in-sweeping-gun-law-changes-in-wake-of-christchurch-attacks">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:15:50 +0100REUTERS: U.S. probed FAA's Boeing 737 Max software approval last year - Bloomberghttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/f7a_XMqFXdU/u-s-probed-faas-boeing-737-max-software-approval-last-year-bloomberg-idUKKCN1R2093
U.S. officials started investigating the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) approval of the Boeing 737 Max software linked to the Lion Air plane crash last year weeks after the accident, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.<div class="feedflare">
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Human rights group says Myanmar, China failing to stop the trafficking of young women from the conflict-ridden Kachin region into forced “marriages” to Chinese menThu, 21 Mar 2019 05:10:18 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Trump says China tariffs may stay for 'a substantial period of time'http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XzI29EpZe_A/index.html
President Donald Trump has warned that US tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese exports are unlikely to go away anytime soon — even if the two countries reach a deal to end their trade war.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XzI29EpZe_A" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:10:13 +0100NEW YORK POST: Jury awards $250K to woman jailed 96 days without seeing a judgehttps://nypost.com/2019/03/21/jury-awards-250k-to-woman-jailed-96-days-without-seeing-a-judge/
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi jury awarded $250,000 in damages Tuesday to a woman jailed 96 days without seeing a judge, a case spotlighting how Mississippi still struggles to provide access to lawyers or bail to people jailed before trial. The verdict included $200,000 in damages against Choctaw County Sheriff Cloyd Halford and $50,000 against...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:03:09 +0100CNBC: Crash tests slam some popular pickup truckshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/iihs-crash-tests-slam-some-popular-pickup-trucks.html
New crash tests show pickups with some of the oldest designs could struggle to protect passengers riding in the front seat.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:03:00 +0100REUTERS: Japanese PM Abe may meet Trump in April - officials, mediahttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/zbdXIZ0ClDM/japanese-pm-abe-may-meet-trump-in-april-officials-media-idUKKCN1R208L
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may meet President Donald Trump in the United States in late April for talks on North Korea and Japan-U.S. trade, two government officials and Japanese media said on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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Russian human rights ombudsperson Tatyana Moskalkova said that Red Cross doctors described Kirill Vyshinsky's condition as satisfactoryThu, 21 Mar 2019 04:51:26 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Australia braces for twin cyclones as state of emergency declared in Northern Territoryhttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/3dqB0e7Crhw/index.html
Parts of Northern Australia are being evacuated as the region braces for two cyclones to make landfall in the coming days -- one of which has the potential to be the region's most powerful storm in years.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/3dqB0e7Crhw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 04:49:29 +0100REUTERS: Taiwan president to visit Hawaii amid China pressurehttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/YPjScJQRkxE/taiwan-president-to-visit-hawaii-amid-china-pressure-idUKKCN1R2089
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will visit Hawaii next week on a tour of diplomatic allies in the Pacific, official media said on Thursday, a move likely to anger China, which claims the self-ruled island as its own amid tension across the strait.<div class="feedflare">
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New Zealand will ban military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles under tough new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country's worst mass shooting, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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LOS ANGELES — Authorities say a bobcat that survived a Southern California wildfire has been hit and killed by a car. The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area tweeted Monday that the adult male bobcat known as B-361 died last week. The animal was struck by a car in Calabasas, about 30 miles west of...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 04:44:36 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Sri Lanka averts rift spilling over to UN rights sessionhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/sri-lanka-averts-rift-spilling-over-to-un-rights-session/2019/03/20/5a032c46-4b8b-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Sri Lanka’s leader has kept his country’s internal political rift from spilling over to a UN human rights council meeting by abandoning plans to oppose his prime minister’s decision to co-sponsor a resolution on the island nationThu, 21 Mar 2019 04:42:30 +0100NEW YORK POST: Mom admits plotting girl’s death: ‘I wanted her to go away’https://nypost.com/2019/03/20/mom-admits-plotting-girls-death-i-wanted-her-to-go-away/
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — The mother of a girl who was raped, murdered and dismembered testified Wednesday that she helped plot the attack and carry it out, telling her daughter before her death that &#8220;I can&#8217;t help you anymore.&#8221; Appearing to smirk at times, Sara Packer calmly recounted how she watched her boyfriend sexually assault her...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 04:39:45 +0100REUTERS: Indonesian president's coalition to win parliament majority - surveyhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/eWvOfEq5pMg/indonesian-presidents-coalition-to-win-parliament-majority-survey-idUKKCN1R207Z
A coalition of political parties backing Indonesian President Joko Widodo is on course to win more than half of the votes in next month's elections, giving them control of parliament, according to a new survey released on Thursday.<div class="feedflare">
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China's average concentrations of lung-damaging small particles known as PM2.5 rose by 5.2 percent in the first two months of the year, the country's environment ministry said on Thursday, casting doubt over its ability to meet winter targets.<div class="feedflare">
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remained under pressure over a corruption scandal on Wednesday as a legislator quit his party's caucus and a pre-election budget aimed at swaying key voters appeared to offer too little to stem the tide of negative news.<div class="feedflare">
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There is a lack of evidence for the cut-off point adopted by athletics chiefs, a BMJ editorial says.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 04:20:44 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Moscow Conference on International Security to focus on situation in the Middle Easthttp://tass.com/defense/1049723
The 8th Moscow Conference on International Security will be held on April 23-25 in MoscowThu, 21 Mar 2019 04:18:54 +0100BBC: Christchurch shootings: New Zealand to ban military style weaponshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-47647786
New Zealand will ban all types of semi-automatic weapons used in the Christchurch attacks.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 04:11:03 +0100The Guardian: Explainer: how are New Zealand's gun laws changing?https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/explainer-how-are-new-zealands-gun-laws-changing
<p>A quick guide to the gun reforms announced by prime minister Jacinda Ardern</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2019/mar/21/new-zealand-shooting-jacinda-ardern-to-make-policy-announcement-live-updates">Jacinda Ardern bans all military-style semi-automatic guns – updates</a></li></ul><p>The following is the text of the statement from the New Zealand government on what the changes to the country’s gun laws will mean:</p><p><strong>1. What semi-automatic firearms will be affected by the ban?</strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/explainer-how-are-new-zealands-gun-laws-changing">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 04:10:38 +0100SKY NEWS: New Zealand bans semi-automatic weapons after terror attackhttp://news.sky.com/story/new-zealand-bans-military-style-semi-automatic-weapons-after-mosque-terror-attack-11671390
Military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles will be banned in New Zealand, the country's prime minister has said.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 04:07:00 +0100REUTERS: Southwest pilots say extra training required after 737 MAX software updatehttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/CM0gGZWaGE8/southwest-pilots-say-extra-training-required-after-737-max-software-update-idUKKCN1R206V
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<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">By LAURIE KELLMAN | AP</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553131802389474000</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 05:28</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
WASHINGTON: Casting aside rare censure from Republican lawmakers, President Donald Trump aimed new blasts of invective at the late John McCain Wednesday, even claiming credit for the senator’s moving Washington funeral and complaining he was never properly thanked.<br />
By the time the president began his anti-McCain tirade in Ohio, several leading Republicans had signaled a new willingness to defy Trump by defending the Vietnam War veteran as a hero seven months after he died of brain cancer. One GOP senator called Trump’s remarks “deplorable.”<br />
Trump then launched a lengthy rant in which he claimed without citing evidence that McCain had pushed for a war and failed America’s veterans.<br />
“I gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted,” Trump told reporters at a campaign-style rally in Lima, Ohio. “I didn’t get (a) thank you but that’s OK.”<br />
In fact, McCain’s family made clear that Trump was not welcome during the week-long, cross-country ceremonies that the senator had planned himself. Instead, McCain invited former Presidents George W. Bush, who defeated McCain during the 2000 GOP nomination fight, and Barack Obama, who defeated him in 2008, to deliver eulogies on the value of pursuing goals greater than oneself. Trump signed off on the military transport of McCain’s body, went golfing and was uncharacteristically quiet on Twitter during the Washington events.<br />
Trump’s publicly nursed grudge against McCain has not appeared to alienate core supporters, some of whom had soured on the senator by the time of his death. Aware of this, GOP lawmakers until now have stayed subdued or silent though Trump sometimes infuriated them with his comments on their late colleague.<br />
McCain’s allies suggested it was time for that to change.<br />
“I hope (Trump’s) indecency to John’s memory and to the McCain family will convince more officeholders that they can’t ignore the damage Trump is doing to politics and to the country’s well-being or remain silent despite their concerns,” said Mark Salter, McCain’s biographer. “They must speak up.”<br />
Trump has said for years that he doesn’t think McCain is a hero because the senator was captured in Vietnam. McCain was tortured and held prisoner for more than five years.<br />
The president has never served in the military and obtained a series of deferments to avoid going to Vietnam, including one attained with a physician’s letter stating that he suffered from bone spurs in his feet.<br />
One McCain Senate vote in particular is the thumbs-down Trump can’t seem to forget. The Arizona senator in 2017 sank the GOP effort to repeal Obama’s health care law. Trump was furious, and it showed even in the days after McCain’s death last August. The administration lowered the American flag over the White House to half-staff when McCain died on a Saturday, but then raised it by Monday. After public outcry, the White House flags were again lowered.<br />
This week, Trump unloaded a new series of anti-McCain tweets in which he said he never had been “a fan” and never would be.<br />
His relentless new targeting of the deceased senator seemed to cross a boundary for several Republicans.<br />
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called McCain “a rare patriot and genuine American hero in the Senate.” McConnell tweeted, “His memory continues to remind me every day that our nation is sustained by the sacrifices of heroes.”<br />
The Kentucky Republican, who is up for re-election next year, never mentioned Trump, but others weren’t so shy.<br />
Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia said not only the McCain family but the nation “deserves better” than Trump’s disparagement.<br />
“I don’t care if he’s president of the United States, owns all the real estate in New York, or is building the greatest immigration system in the world,” Isakson told The Bulwark, a conservative news and opinion website. Later, Isakson called Trump’s remarks “deplorable.”<br />
“It will (be) deplorable seven months from now if he says it again,” Isakson continued in remarks on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Political Rewind radio show, “and I will continue to speak out.”<br />
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, the GOP’s 2012 presidential nominee whom Trump briefly considered nominating as secretary of state, tweeted praise for McCain on Tuesday — and criticism of Trump.<br />
“I can’t understand why the President would, once again, disparage a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty to family, country, and God,” Romney wrote.<br />
Pushback also came from Sen. Martha McSally, a Republican Air Force veteran appointed to McCain’s seat from Arizona.<br />
“John McCain is an American hero and I am thankful for his life of service and legacy to our country and Arizona,” she tweeted Wednesday. “Everyone should give him and his family the respect, admiration, and peace they deserve.”<br />
That McSally declined to criticize Trump directly reflected the broader wariness among Republicans to cross a president famous for mobilizing his followers against GOP lawmakers he deems disloyal. But this week, Trump seemed to inspire a new determination among some to draw a line, however delicately.<br />
Sen. Lindsey Graham, who wept openly on the Senate floor after McCain died but has allied himself strongly with Trump, said, “I think the president’s comments about Sen. McCain hurt him more than they hurt the legacy of Sen. McCain.”<br />
“A lot of people are coming to John’s defense now. ... I don’t like it when he says things about my friend John McCain.”<br />
Democratic leaders, meanwhile, were eager to jump into the uproar.<br />
“I look forward to soon re-introducing my legislation re-naming the Senate Russell Building after American hero, Senator John McCain,” tweeted Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer of New York.</p>
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Over 1,600 servicemen are taking part in the drills, along with around 300 units of weapons and military equipmentThu, 21 Mar 2019 04:05:25 +0100The Hindu International: New Zealand bans semi-automatic, assault rifles after mosque shootingshttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/new-zealand-bans-semi-automatic-and-assault-rifles-after-mosque-shootings/article26596739.ece
New Zealand will ban military style semi-automatic and assault rifles under tough new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country's worThu, 21 Mar 2019 04:04:12 +0100REUTERS: New Zealand bans types of semi-automatic weapons, high capacity magazines after mass shootinghttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/IFYeR1XM26U/new-zealand-bans-types-of-semi-automatic-weapons-high-capacity-magazines-after-mass-shooting-idUKKCN1R2029
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday that military style semi-automatics and assault rifles will be banned under stronger new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country's worst mass shooting.<div class="feedflare">
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The remains of mountaineers who died on the world's highest peak are being exposed as its ice melts.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 03:50:31 +0100The Guardian: US-China trade: Trump says tariffs on Beijing may lingerhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/us-china-trade-trump-says-tariffs-on-beijing-may-linger
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Maryam Gul says she has forgiven the man who killed her parents and brother in the Christchurch mosque attacks.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 03:44:09 +0100The Guardian: Allianz stadium report shows case for rebuild 'a sham', Michael Daley sayshttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/allianz-stadium-report-shows-case-for-rebuild-a-sham-michael-daley-says
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New Zealand prime minister announces immediate ban on all assault weapons, “military-style semi-automatic weapons”Thu, 21 Mar 2019 03:16:14 +0100NEW YORK POST: Border Patrol turns to catch and release after flood of migrantshttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/border-patrol-turns-to-catch-and-release-after-flood-of-migrants/
So many asylum seekers have recently crossed the Mexican border into Texas that the Border Patrol has started releasing those it catches. One local official said there were 2,000 more migrants in McAllen alone than authorities in the city of 142,600 could handle. “We need to find something today,” McAllen City Manager Roel Rodriguez warned...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 03:15:48 +0100NEW YORK POST: Rape, bible reading and selfies: Disturbing details revealed about Boston bar abductionhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/rape-bible-reading-and-selfies-disturbing-details-revealed-about-boston-bar-abduction/
The Massachusetts man charged with abducting a young woman as she left a Boston bar made her read passages of the bible to him and pose for selfies as he held her captive in his apartment for three days and repeatedly raped her, prosecutors said in court Wednesday. Victor Pena, 38, allegedly told Olivia Ambrose,...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 03:14:17 +0100BBC: NZ to ban all military style weapons - PMhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47648549
New Zealand will ban all types of semi-automatic weapons used in Christchurch attacks, says PM Jacinda ArdernThu, 21 Mar 2019 03:12:20 +0100WASHINGTON POST: The Latest: UK’s May has ‘personal regret’ over Brexit bumpshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/the-latest-uks-may-has-personal-regret-over-brexit-bumps/2019/03/20/69deec5c-4b7e-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Nine days before Britain is scheduled to leave the European Union, PM May asks the bloc for a delay, which the exasperated EU will only grant if May can win UK Parliament’s approval for her twice-rejected Brexit dealThu, 21 Mar 2019 03:09:53 +0100NEW YORK POST: Trump may cut school funding for military kids to fund border wallhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/trump-may-cut-school-funding-for-military-kids-to-fund-border-wall/
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Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that Friday's call to prayers for Muslims will be broadcast nationally and there will be a two minute silence.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 03:04:41 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Special envoys for Afghanistan from US, Russia, China, EU to hold talks on March 21-22http://tass.com/world/1049716
US Special Representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad will hold consultations with Russian, Chinese and EU diplomats on March 21-22 in WashingtonThu, 21 Mar 2019 03:02:14 +0100CNBC: Bingo enthusiast who won $70 on 'Deal or No Deal' says he learned a valuable lessonhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/deal-or-no-deal-contestant-who-won-70-learned-a-valuable-lesson.html
&quot;I call this a lucky game that went wrong,&quot; says contestant Tony Oriente.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 03:00:00 +0100Voice of Europe: EU Leaders to Discuss Ways to Limit Chinese Influence at Summit Dinnerhttps://www.voanews.com/a/eu-leaders-to-discuss-ways-to-limit-chinese-influence-at-summit-dinner/4840679.html
The European Union will discuss a more defensive strategy on China on Thursday, potentially signalling an end to the unfettered access that Chinese business has enjoyed in Europe but which Beijing has failed to reciprocate.
Caught between a new U.S.-Chinese rivalry for economic and military power, EU leaders will try to find a middle path during a summit dinner in Brussels, the first time they have discussed at the highest level how to deal with Beijing.
"We are fully open," European Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen said of the EU's economy. "China is not, and it raises lots of questions," Katainen told Reuters, arguing that the world's second-largest economy could no longer claim special status as a developing country.
Meeting as Chinese President Xi Jinping starts a tour of France and Italy, EU leaders - who have often been divided over China - want to present a united front ahead of an EU-China summit on April 9.
According to a draft April summit statement seen by Reuters, the EU is seeking to set deadlines for China to make good on trade and investment pledges that have been repeatedly pushed back, although Beijing must still agree to the final text.
That was a message delivered to State Councillor Wang Yi by EU foreign ministers on Monday. It marked a shift towards what EU diplomats say is a more "assertive and competitive mindset".
"In the past, it has been extremely difficult for the EU to formulate a clear strategy on China, and past policy documents have not been strategically coherent," said Duncan Freeman at the EU-China Research Centre at the College of Europe. "There is now a clear effort to do that."
In a document to prepare the EU summit, the European Commission called China a "systemic rival".
U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign to warn against Huawei telecommunications equipment in next-generation wireless networks has accelerated EU discussions about its position.
The deepest tensions lie around China's slowness to open up its economy, a surge of Chinese takeovers in critical sectors and an impression that Beijing has not stood up for free trade.
GERMANY IS KEY With over a billion euros a day in bilateral trade, the EU is China's top trading partner, while China is second only to the United States as a market for European goods and services.
Chinese trade restrictions are more severe than EU barriers in almost every economic sector, according to research firm Rhodium Group and the Mercator Institute for China Studies.
Unlike the United States, which has a naval fleet based in Japan to wield influence over the region, the EU lacks any military power to confront China, so its approach is technical.
But any new EU policies could prove complicated to implement, as EU capitals continue to court Chinese investment.
Italy plans to join China's multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road infrastructure project, while free-traders Ireland, Sweden and the Netherlands are wary of any restrictions on commerce.
Germany's views will be important as Berlin has at times pressed for a tougher response to unfair competition from Chinese rivals but also championed a closer relationship with Beijing.
"Their position needs to stabilize. At the moment it changes on almost every day of the week," the senior envoy said.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 02:57:44 +0100The Guardian: New Zealand shooting: Jacinda Ardern to make policy announcement – live updateshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2019/mar/21/new-zealand-shooting-jacinda-ardern-to-make-policy-announcement-live-updates
<p>Prime minister has previously said cabinet will spend week working on gun law reform, after agreeing ‘in principle’ to changes. Follow it live ...</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/new-zealand-asks-how-was-the-threat-from-the-far-right-missed">How was the threat of from the far-right missed?</a></li></ul><p class="block-time published-time"> <time datetime="2019-03-21T01:56:05.366Z">1.56am <span class="timezone">GMT</span></time> </p><p>Good afternoon. <strong>Jacinda Ardern </strong>is set to make a policy announcement from Wellington at 3pm today (in about 10 minutes). We have not been told what sort of policy she will announce, but given the events of the last week, the money is on it being about changes to gun laws.</p><p>On Monday, days after Friday’s horrific attacks that left 50 people dead, Ardern announced that her cabinet had agreed “in principle” to reform New Zealand’s gun laws, but did not give any details of what these changes would be.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2019/mar/21/new-zealand-shooting-jacinda-ardern-to-make-policy-announcement-live-updates">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 02:56:09 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: Amnesty faults electric vehicle batteries as carbon intensive, linked to child laborhttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1470101/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Reuters</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553131802359473800</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 04:40</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
LONDON: Amnesty International attacked the electric vehicle (EV) industry on Thursday for selling itself as environmentally friendly while producing many of its batteries using polluting fossil fuels and unethically sourced minerals.<br />
Manufacturing batteries can be carbon intensive, while the extraction of minerals used in them has been linked to human rights violations such as child labor, a statement from the rights group said.<br />
“Electric vehicles are key to shifting the motor industry away from fossil fuels, but they are currently not as ethical as some retailers would like us to believe,” it said, announcing the initiative at the Nordic Electric Vehicle Summit in Oslo.<br />
Production of lithium-ion batteries for EVs is power intensive, and factories are concentrated in China, South Korea and Japan, where power generation is largely dependent on coal or other fossil fuels, Amnesty said.<br />
Global automakers are investing billions of dollars to ramp up electric vehicle production. German giant Volkswagen for one plans to raise annual production of electric cars to 3 million by 2025, from 40,000 in 2018.<br />
Amnesty demanded the EV industry come up with an ethical and clean battery within five years and in the meantime that carbon footprints be disclosed and supply chains of key minerals identified.<br />
Last month, a letter seen by Reuters showed that 14 non-governmental organizations including Amnesty and Global Witness had opposed plans by the London Metal Exchange to ban cobalt tainted by human rights abuses.<br />
Instead of banning the cobalt brands, the LME should work with firms that produce them to ensure responsible sourcing, they said.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.arabnews.com/sites/default/files/2019/03/21/1497636-1374593079.jpg" width="900" height="530" alt="" title="The reflection of a worker is seen at the production line of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (EV) at a factory in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, China, on August 28, 2018. (REUTERS/File Photo)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/electric-cars">electric cars</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/carbon">carbon</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/human-rights-violations">human rights violations</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/child-labor">child labor</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/amnesty-international">Amnesty international</a></div></div></div> Tesla’s ‘mass market’ $35k electric car ready to order, onlineVolvo says electric car unit Polestar could list one dayThu, 21 Mar 2019 02:51:21 +0100The Guardian: CSIRO promises review after profiting from diet pill that was not 'clinically validated'https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/csiro-promises-review-after-profiting-from-diet-pill-that-was-not-clinically-validated
<p>Federal science agency says the use of its name is ‘outside the scope’ of agreement with Probiotec</p><p>Federal science agency the CSIRO is reviewing its links to a diet pill after it emerged it was profiting from the sales of a product that is not medically proven.</p><p>Blackmores is selling the Metabolic C12 supplement, under the umbrella of Impromy – a weight loss program the CSIRO developed.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/csiro-promises-review-after-profiting-from-diet-pill-that-was-not-clinically-validated">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 02:49:30 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: Australian PM welcomes ‘moderation’ from Erdoganhttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1470096/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">AFP</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553132145999484200</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2019-03-21 04:32</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday welcomed some “moderation” in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s comments in the wake of the Christchurch massacre.<br />
Trying to take the sting out of a diplomatic row that has threatened relations between Australia, New Zealand and Turkey, Morrison pointed to a recent Erdogan column in the Washington Post as progress.<br />
“Overnight, progress has been made on this issue and overnight we’ve already seen a moderation of the president’s views,” Morrison said, citing the article in which Erdogan stepped away from direct criticism of New Zealand.<br />
The Turkish leader — who is in full campaign mode ahead of local elections — still used the article to accuse Western countries of meeting Islamophobia with “silence.”<br />
But Morrison took it as a diplomatic off-ramp nonetheless.<br />
Morrison — who is also in full campaign mode, ahead of a general election — had on Wednesday pilloried Erdogan for his comments in the wake of the Christchurch massacre, describing them as “reckless” and “highly offensive.”<br />
Erdogan has repeatedly used video footage of the massacre shot by the attacker who killed 50 people and painted the attack it as part of an assault on Turkey and Islam.<br />
He had also warned that anti-Muslim Australians and New Zealanders would be “sent back in coffins” like their grandfathers at Gallipoli, a blood-drenched WWI battle.<br />
His office on Wednesday said the remarks were taken out of context.<br />
More than 8,000 Australians died fighting Turkish forces at Gallipoli, which has a prominent place in Australia’s collective memory.<br />
Morrison had summoned the Turkish ambassador over the comments, dismissing the “excuses” offered and warning that relations were under review.<br />
“I am expecting, and I have asked, for these comments to be clarified, to be withdrawn,” he said.</p>
<p> <b>Rambling manifesto</b><br />
The gunman’s so-called “manifesto” — a 70-plus page rambling question and answer — mentions Turkey and the minarets of Istanbul’s famed Hagia Sophia, now a museum, that was once a church before becoming a mosque during the Ottoman empire.<br />
Three Turkish nationals were wounded in the rampage that killed 50 worshippers at the mosques in the southern New Zealand city.<br />
“President #Erdogan’s words were unfortunately taken out of context,” Fahrettin Altun, communications director for the Turkish presidency, claimed on Twitter.<br />
Altun said Erdogan’s comments were in “a historical context of attacks against Turkey, past and present.”<br />
“Turks have always been the most welcoming &amp; gracious hosts to their #Anzac visitors,” he added, referring to Australian and New Zealand veterans and families who are expected to travel there for the anniversary on April 25.<br />
Erdogan has built his political base on being a champion of Muslim Turks. For most of the last century, the country’s government has been avowedly secular.<br />
Like leaders in Iran and Russia, Erdogan has also played on a sense that Turkey — the inheritor of the once-mighty Ottoman Empire — has not been given enough respect on the international stage.<br />
Erdogan had earlier been sharply rebuked by New Zealand for his comments and for using gruesome video shot by the Christchurch mosque gunman as an election campaign prop.<br />
New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters protested on Monday that such politicization of the massacre “imperils the future and safety of the New Zealand people and our people abroad, and it’s totally unfair.”<br />
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has sent Peters to Istanbul to meet with Turkish leaders on the issue this week.<br />
In the Washington Post article Erdogan praised Ardern’s “courage, leadership and sincerity” in handling the crisis.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.arabnews.com/sites/default/files/2019/03/21/1497626-1046377817.jpg" width="900" height="530" alt="" title="Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on March 20, 2019. (AAP Image/Andrew Taylor/via REUTERS)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/new-zealand-mosque-attack">New Zealand mosque attack</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/scott-morrison">Scott Morrison</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/recept-tayyip-erdogan">Recept Tayyip Erdogan</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/gallipoli">Gallipoli</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/islamophobia">Islamophobia</a></div></div></div> Erdogan’s ‘vile’ comments on Christchurch mosques shootings dismissed as not representative of MuslimsNew Zealand envoy headed to Turkey to ‘confront’ Erdogan’s mosque shooting commentsThu, 21 Mar 2019 02:45:55 +0100REUTERS: In early campaigning, 2020 Democrats try out tactics for taking on Trumphttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/O_1svBOQPvE/in-early-campaigning-2020-democrats-try-out-tactics-for-taking-on-trump-idUKKCN1R11PW
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After five years of running Thailand with absolute power, Thailand’s junta leader is seeking to hold on to power through the ballot boxThu, 21 Mar 2019 02:31:06 +0100REUTERS: Nicaraguan government agrees to release prisoners to restart dialoguehttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/0PpuDnxAEBI/nicaraguan-government-agrees-to-release-prisoners-to-restart-dialogue-idUKKCN1R204P
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Thousands of fighters remain in the region, but they have gone underground, carrying out quick strikes in the region and continuing to promote their ideology worldwide.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 02:05:42 +0100BBC: Patrick Shanahan: Pentagon chief's ties to Boeing investigatedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47647865
Patrick Shanahan is accused of frequently praising Boeing in meetings about government contracts.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 02:02:30 +0100The Guardian: #themooovement: parody Twitter account surpasses Devin Nunes in followershttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/20/themooovement-parody-twitter-account-surpasses-devin-nunes-in-followers
<p>Devin Nunes’ Cow has a herd of 498,000 followers on Wednesday night, surpassing the California congressman’s 396,000</p><p>A parody Twitter account that mocks Devin Nunes now has more followers than the California congressman does – all because of media attention brought by a defamation lawsuit Nunes brought against Twitter and users who make fun of him on the platform.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/DevinCow">Devin Nunes’ </a><a href="https://twitter.com/DevinCow">Cow</a> had more than 498,000 followers on Wednesday evening. Nunes’ own Twitter account had 396,000.Another account cited in the suit, “Devin Nunes’ mom” has since been suspended.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/20/themooovement-parody-twitter-account-surpasses-devin-nunes-in-followers">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:58:13 +0100The Guardian: Bangers and ballots: everything you need to know about the NSW electionhttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/bangers-and-ballots-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-nsw-election
<p>There’s a good chance Saturday’s poll will produce a hung parliament. Here’s how to make your vote count – and where to buy your democracy sausage</p><p>Almost 5.3 million people are enrolled to vote at more than 8,000 voting stations in Saturday’s state election. New South Wales has fixed terms, with elections held on the fourth Saturday in March every four years since 1995. About a quarter of voters cast their ballot before election day in 2015, and this is expected to rise in 2019. Almost 850,000 people had voted by Thursday morning.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/bangers-and-ballots-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-nsw-election">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:58:08 +0100REUTERS: Bullet-riddled NZ mosque to reopen for Friday prayers; more victims buriedhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/tu8POAK_Cfg/bullet-riddled-nz-mosque-to-reopen-for-friday-prayers-more-victims-buried-idUKKCN1R2029
The bullet-riddled Al Noor mosque in Christchurch was being repaired, painted and cleaned ahead of Friday prayers, as grieving families buried more victims of New Zealand's worst mass shooting.<div class="feedflare">
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A Guatemalan presidential candidate known for tackling high-profile corruption as attorney general said on Wednesday that she would return from neighbouring El Salvador within days despite an arrest warrant.<div class="feedflare">
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Fishermen initially mistook the flat fish's unusual appearance for a piece of driftwood.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:50:39 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Thousands likely for first Friday prayer since mosque attackhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/thousands-likely-for-first-friday-prayer-since-mosque-attack/2019/03/20/28d5e34c-4b73-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Thousands of people are expected to come together for an emotional Friday prayer service led by the imam of one of the New Zealand mosques attacked a week agoThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:49:19 +0100REUTERS: China smashes counterfeiting ring that sold 100 million yuan of branded goodshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/9kdrnJBt8Jo/china-smashes-counterfeiting-ring-that-sold-100-million-yuan-of-branded-goods-idUKKCN1R2023
Chinese police have arrested 32 members of a group they said made and sold up to 100 million yuan (£11.3 million) worth of counterfeit luxury goods from brands such as Louis Vuitton and Loewe, state news agency Xinhua said.<div class="feedflare">
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<p>Western Australian government to compulsorily acquire properties in deadly Pilbara site, where there are fears for tourists who still visit the area</p><p>Landowners who refuse to move from the most contaminated site in the southern hemisphere will have their properties compulsorily acquired by the Western Australian government.</p><p>A bill to finalise the closure of the former asbestos mining town Wittenoom in the Pilbara, which was de-gazetted in 2007, was due to be introduced to state parliament on Wednesday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/final-wittenoom-residents-to-be-forced-out-of-asbestos-ridden-mining-town">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:41:52 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Nicaragua government says it will free all jailed protestershttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/nicaragua-government-says-it-will-free-all-jailed-protesters/2019/03/20/50e63726-4b71-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is promising to free all protesters arrested in the last year within 90 daysThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:36:08 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): First flight of new Il-112V aircraft to take place in the next few weekshttp://tass.com/defense/1049718
A source in the defense-industrial complex that the first flight of new Russian military transport aircraft Il-112V will take place at the end of March or start of AprilThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:33:35 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: Vietnam embalms a sacred turtle, Lenin-stylehttps://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/vietnam-embalms-a-sacred-turtle-lenin-style-20190321-p51641.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
The turtle has now joined an elite club of famous figures embalmed and put on display by communist regimes.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:31:49 +0100WASHINGTON POST: The Latest: NZ imam preparing for emotional Friday prayerhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-latest-nz-imam-preparing-for-emotional-friday-prayer/2019/03/20/a9486b6a-4b70-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
An imam says he’s expecting thousands of people at an emotional Friday prayer in Christchurch, New Zealand, a week after a gunman killed 42 people at his mosque and 50 people in allThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:31:27 +0100BBC: Cyclone Idai: Rescuers race against time to reach survivorshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47647804
Aid workers say thousands in Mozambique are still awaiting rescue from catastrophic flooding.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:29:38 +0100The Guardian: Coalition refuses to release Tony Abbott letters to Queen on knighthoodshttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/coalition-refuses-to-release-tony-abbott-letters-to-queen-on-knighthoods
<p>Information commissioner has ruled letters from Turnbull and Abbott between 2013 and 2016 should be released </p><p>The Australian government is fighting to hide Tony Abbott’s letters to the Queen about his much-ridiculed bid to bring back knight and dame honours, despite the information watchdog ordering the documents be produced.</p><p>The freedom of information expert William Summers has spent years attempting to secure the release of correspondence between Australian prime ministers and the Queen. The correspondence, penned between 2013 and 2016, includes 14 letters from Malcolm Turnbull and Abbott. At least one letter relates to Abbott’s infamous decision to bring back knight and dame honours in Australia.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/coalition-refuses-to-release-tony-abbott-letters-to-queen-on-knighthoods">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:19:46 +0100CNBC: Cramer Remix: Forget the stocks caught in the trade war crossfirehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/cramer-remix-forget-the-stocks-caught-in-the-trade-war-crossfire.html
Jim Cramer reveals why Nike is an ideal investment that can do well with or without a trade deal.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:19:00 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: Media urged to deny Christchurch shooting accused the publicity he seekshttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1470091/world
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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand: The media has been urged to stop naming the man charged with the shootings at two mosques in Christchurch last week that left 50 people dead.</p>
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday that she would never speak his name. In a speech to parliament, she urged the public to follow suit and deny the gunman the infamy he wants.<br />
“I implore you, speak the names of those who were lost, rather than the name of the man who took them,” she added. “He may have sought notoriety but we in New Zealand will give him nothing, not even his name.”<br />
Arden said the media can “play a strong role” in limiting coverage of extreme views such as his.<br />
“Of course, people will want to know what is happening with the trial,” she said. “But I would hope there are ways that it could be covered without adding to the notoriety that this individual seeks.<br />
“But the one thing I can assure you – you won’t hear me speak his name.”<br />
The man accused of the mass shootings has so far been charged with one count of murder, but New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush has said further charges will be brought against him. The man said in a manifesto posted online shortly before the attacks that he intended to survive so that he could continue to spread his ideals, and that he intends to plead not guilty. He has said he plans to represent himself in court, although a judge can order a lawyer to assist him.<br />
There have been calls for the media to refuse to report anything he says during the trial. Paul Thompson, the chief executive of Radio New Zealand, said his station will exercise caution and asked editors at all media outlets to take part in a discussion about covering the case.<br />
“We’re just going to be very careful we don’t become a platform for any kind of extremist agenda,” he said, explaining that the station does not want to inflame the situation or become a party to the accused killer’s agenda.<br />
Thompson described the case as “uncharted territory” but said he remains confident that his reporters will do their jobs professionally.<br />
Dr Philip Cass, a senior lecturer in journalism at Auckland’s Unitec Institute of Technology, said the media will have to make “a very fine judgment” about what is reported if the accused killer uses the court as “a forum for the expression of his opinion.” He was wary, however, of calls to completely avoid reporting what is said in court.<br />
“If you do that then we are moving into an area of censorship,” he said, adding that it is the media’s responsibility to provide a record of what is said and done.<br />
Dr Catherine Strong, a journalism lecturer at Massey University, said she is confident that the media in New Zealand media will act responsibly. There is no legal or ethical imperative for journalists to report everything the accused says in court, she pointed out. The country’s media has already shown maturity by not using the name of the accused in headlines and by focusing on covering the shootings from the perspective of the victims, Strong added.</p>
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Hal Crawford, the chief news officer at MediaWorks, which owns TV3 and RadioLive in New Zealand, said, "Newshub is open to an industry-wide set of guidelines for reporting on Tarrant's trial, and we are in discussions with other newsrooms. Our aims are to minimise publicity of damaging ideology while reporting the workings of justice objectively." </p>
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The man, who has not yet entered a plea, is due to appear in court again on April 5.</p>
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On Thursday, millions of people will celebrate Persian New Year, also known as Nowruz. Here's how.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:17:30 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Moscow, Beijing urge to stamp out terrorism in Syria — Russia’s foreign ministryhttp://tass.com/politics/1049713
Russian Presidential Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa Mikhail Bogdanov met with China’s Special Envoy for Syria Xie Xiaoyan on WednesdayThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:17:16 +0100The Guardian: Christchurch shooting: remembering the victimshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2019/mar/21/christchurch-shooting-remembering-the-victims
<p>Jacinda Ardern asked New Zealand to remember the names of the victims of the Christchurch shooting, not that of the perpetrator. Here are their stories</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2019/mar/21/christchurch-shooting-remembering-the-victims">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:17:08 +0100BBC: The Indonesian paradise island drowning in plastichttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47643268
Beaches on the Indonesian island of Sumatra are covered in plastic - and some of it is being dumped there by local businesses.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:14:45 +0100REUTERS: Israeli forces kill Palestinian in West Bank - Palestinian medics; Israel reviewinghttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/40sAUgXpkQ8/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-in-west-bank-palestinian-medics-israel-reviewing-idUKKCN1R200Z
A Palestinian was killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medics said, and the military announced on Thursday that a soldier had discharged his weapon and it was reviewing the incident.<div class="feedflare">
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Kenya's Lake Victoria fishermen are struggling to compete with cheap Chinese fish imports.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:09:04 +0100BBC: 'Why are the children being punished?'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47643266
Russian officials are facing appeals from hundreds of families to bring back IS wives and children.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:08:54 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: Confusion, then prayer, in cockpit of doomed Lion Air jethttps://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/confusion-then-prayer-in-cockpit-of-doomed-lion-air-jet-20190321-p5163k.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
As the seconds ticked by, the pilot handed the controls to his co-pilot and flipped through the pages of a technical manual, trying to figure out what was happening.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:07:34 +0100BBC: Italy takes a shine to China's New Silk Roadhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47640196
Italy is ready to let Chinese money build its infrastructure - but its allies remain sceptical.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:05:49 +0100BBC: Jacinda Ardern: 'A leader with love on full display'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47630129
The NZ prime minister has been held up as an example of good leadership after the Christchurch attack.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:03:27 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russian senior diplomat discusses Syria’s reconstruction with UNDP officialshttp://tass.com/world/1049712
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin met with Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, Director of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS, and UNDP Country Director in Syria David AkopyanThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:02:41 +0100BBC: Thailand election: Young voters could be key to victoryhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47639056
It's the first election since the coup of 2014 and seven million young people are voting for the first time.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:01:10 +0100The Guardian: Home Office has utterly failed in immigration detention, MPs findhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/home-office-has-utterly-failed-in-immigration-detention-mps-find
<p>Irresponsibility led to people being wrongly detained, committee chair says </p><p>The Home Office approach to immigration detention is careless and cavalier and has led to people being wrongfully detained, an influential parliamentary committee has concluded.</p><p>The home affairs select committee said in a scathing report that the department had overseen serious failings in almost every area of the immigration detention process.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/home-office-has-utterly-failed-in-immigration-detention-mps-find">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:01:02 +0100JANES: MBDA revenues increase, order backlog growshttp://www.janes.com/article/87379/mbda-revenues-increase-order-backlog-grows?from_rss=1
European missile manufacturing consortium MBDA announced in its annual results that the firm&#8217;s order book had hit a record EUR17.4 billion (USD19.78 billion) following an absolute-terms increase of EUR600 million.
&#8220;This backlog is important as it provides us with important coverage andThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: MBDA test fires Brimstone 3http://www.janes.com/article/87378/mbda-test-fires-brimstone-3?from_rss=1
European missile house MBDA completed the first firing trial of the Brimstone 3 precision strike missile at the Vidsel Test Range in Sweden last month, the company has disclosed.
Conducted in temperatures below -30&#176;, the missile was surface launched against a pick-up truck target. MBDA saidThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: Philippines signals procurement reformhttp://www.janes.com/article/87377/philippines-signals-procurement-reform?from_rss=1
The Philippines Department of National Defence (DND) has outlined a commitment to introduce additional reforms to improve the country&#8217;s military procurement processes.
The DND said the emphasis of new measures will be to enhance transparency and to enable acquisitions to be more responsive toThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: ST Engineering positions Bronco to meet Bv206 requirementshttp://www.janes.com/article/87376/st-engineering-positions-bronco-to-meet-bv206-requirements?from_rss=1
Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) is positioning its Bronco 3 to address the potential emerging requirements of current Bv206 users, according to Dominic Phoon, vice-president and product director of the Programme Management Office.
The Bronco 3 was specifically designed forThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: Brazil joins US National Guard’s State Partnership Programmehttp://www.janes.com/article/87375/brazil-joins-us-national-guard-s-state-partnership-programme?from_rss=1
The New York National Guard (NYNG) is teaming up with the Brazilian military under the umbrella of the US National Guard&#8217;s State Partnership Programme.
As part of the partnership, which was signed on 14 March, a NYNG &#8220;bilateral relations office will be assigned to the US Embassy inThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: USCG enforces North Korea sanctions in the East China Seahttp://www.janes.com/article/87374/uscg-enforces-north-korea-sanctions-in-the-east-china-sea?from_rss=1
The US Coast Guard (USCG) National Security Cutter Bertholf (WMSL-750) has finished patrols in the East China Sea to help enforce United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR) intended to stop countries from avoiding North Korean sanctions through illegal ship-to-ship transfers.
The UNSCRsThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: Security alerts 22–29 Marchhttp://www.janes.com/article/87373/security-alerts-22-29-march?from_rss=1
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WATCH FOR: Roadblocks and violent street demonstrations outside Popay&#225;n during an indigenous protest into the weekend of 23&#8211;24 March
Risk analysis: On 19 March, Colombian police reported that unidentified gunmen, suspected to be from FARC dissident rebel groups,Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: Houthi UAVs infiltrate Saudi airspacehttp://www.janes.com/article/87372/houthi-uavs-infiltrate-saudi-airspace?from_rss=1
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operated by Yemen&#8217;s Ansar Allah rebel group (popularly known as the Houthis) has penetrated more than 120 km into Saudi airspace to film a desalination plant on the kingdom&#8217;s Red Sea coast.
The confirmation of the flight came in the form of aerialThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: OSINT Snapshot: Pro-Islamic State Telegram channel promotes pairing smartphones with VHF radiohttp://www.janes.com/article/87370/osint-snapshot-pro-islamic-state-telegram-channel-promotes-pairing-smartphones-with-vhf-radio?from_rss=1
Jane&#8217;s OSINT snapshots are brief analyses of recent national security-related news using lesser-visited online sources. Jack Barclay reports on Telegram discussions indicating interest in establishing a basic tactical communications network.
On 18 February 2019, a member of a pro-IslamicThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: Russia moves more strike assets to Eastern Mediterraneanhttp://www.janes.com/article/87371/russia-moves-more-strike-assets-to-eastern-mediterranean?from_rss=1
Russia appears to be moving additional air and naval assets into Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean, giving its military commanders more options in the theatre.
A Project 636.3 &#8216;Kilo&#8217;-class diesel-electric submarine was seen transiting the Bosphorus form the Black Sea into theThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: Ukraine’s presidential election very likely to see split vote leading to second round; conflicting policy announcements likelyhttp://www.janes.com/article/87369/ukraine-s-presidential-election-very-likely-to-see-split-vote-leading-to-second-round-conflicting-policy-announcements-likely?from_rss=1
On 31 March 2019, Ukraine will hold the first round of its presidential election, with 39 candidates running for the top office. With up to 15% of the 35.5 million voters effectively disenfranchised, the election is likely to favour candidates with strong nationalist platform and disadvantageThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: Defence partners with SYPAQ to innovate battlefield logistics unmanned aerial system for Armyhttp://www.janes.com/article/87367/defence-partners-with-sypaq-to-innovate-battlefield-logistics-unmanned-aerial-system-for-army?from_rss=1
The Australian Army in partnership with the Defence Innovation Hub has awarded SYPAQ an innovation contract to develop and demonstrate a next generation battlefield logistics small unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
The Australian Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 12 March that the AustralianThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: Political risks intelligence bulletin – 21 March 2019http://www.janes.com/article/87368/political-risks-intelligence-bulletin-21-march-2019?from_rss=1
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Brazil 20 Mar 2019 President Bolsonaro sent to Congress a pension reform proposal for the military that could raise USD2.78 billion in government revenue in 10 years.
Guatemala - 18 Mar 2019: The National Police issued an arrest warrant against presidential candidate Thelma Aldana onThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: Australia to extend service life of Anzac-class frigates amid concerns about sustainmenthttp://www.janes.com/article/87366/australia-to-extend-service-life-of-anzac-class-frigates-amid-concerns-about-sustainment?from_rss=1
The Anzac-class frigates of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) are to have their service life extended by up to 10 years amid potential concerns about their future seaworthiness and capability.
According to a report on sustainment of the eight-ship class released on 18 March by the Australian NationalThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: Update: BAE begins Meteor and SPEAR integration for F-35http://www.janes.com/article/87365/update-bae-begins-meteor-and-spear-integration-for-f-35?from_rss=1
BAE Systems has begun integrating the next tranche of UK-specific weapons onto the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning combat aircraft.
The company announced on 18 March that it had been sub-contracted by Lockheed Martin to begin integrating the MBDA Meteor beyond visual range air-to-air missileThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: French/UK Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon programme passes Key Reviewhttp://www.janes.com/article/87364/french-uk-future-cruise-anti-ship-weapon-programme-passes-key-review?from_rss=1
The joint French/UK Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon (FC/ASW) programme has successfully completed a milestone review intended to identify the most promising missile concepts and narrow down the list of potential technical solutions.
Work will now focus on further maturing the down-selected conceptsThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: Final tranche of EUR525 million for EU-funded pilot defence projects to be released soonhttp://www.janes.com/article/87363/final-tranche-of-eur525-million-for-eu-funded-pilot-defence-projects-to-be-released-soon?from_rss=1
The European Commission announced on 19 March how it will spend the remaining balance of EUR525 million (almost USD600 million) from its three-year pilot European Defence Fund (EDF) for co-financing defence capability and research projects with the member states.
Ranging from precision strikeThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: Rheinmetall Mission Master UGV qualified for firing 70 mm rocketshttp://www.janes.com/article/87362/rheinmetall-mission-master-ugv-qualified-for-firing-70-mm-rockets?from_rss=1
Rheinmetall Canada&#8217;s Mission Master unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) fired Thales 70 mm rockets during Rheinmetall Denel Munition&#8217;s Ammunition Capability Demonstration (ACD) 2019 at Denel&#8217;s Overberg test range on 20 March.
The UGV, which is controlled by a single soldier through aThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100JANES: Despite resignation, Nazarbayev likely to retain political influence over Kazakh leadership, including facilitation of dynastic power transferhttp://www.janes.com/article/87361/despite-resignation-nazarbayev-likely-to-retain-political-influence-over-kazakh-leadership-including-facilitation-of-dynastic-power-transfer?from_rss=1
On 19 March, after holding the presidency since 1990, Nursultan Nazarbayev announced his resignation effective 20 March.
Despite stepping down, Nursultan Nazarbayev is highly likely to retain decisive political influence in Kazakhstan in the one-year outlook. This retention of control is ensured byThu, 21 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0100NEW YORK POST: Wife of principal charged with attempting to kill husbandhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/wife-of-principal-charged-with-attempting-to-kill-husband/
The wife of a California school principal was charged with attempted murder after an incident that left her spouse on life support, officials said. Maria Vides, 39, faces a charge for attempted willful, deliberate and premeditated murder for allegedly gunning down her 45-year-old husband Saturday at their Pittsburg home, the Mercury News reported. Police said...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:58:43 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Message to Russia: US B-52s deployhttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/EquNJHK_v8A/index.html
The US Air Force recently deployed six nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to Europe for "theater integration and flying training" exercises with regional allies and NATO partners -- a move viewed as sending a strong message to Russia, which is celebrating the five-year anniversary of its military annexation of Crimea.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/EquNJHK_v8A" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:53:30 +0100CNBC: Asian shares gain after Fed keeps rates on holdhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/asia-markets-the-fed-us-china-trade-currencies-in-focus.html
Shares in Asia traded higher on Monday morning after the U.S. Federal Reserve announced overnight that it was keeping interest rates on hold, and indicated that no more rate hikes would be coming in 2019.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:52:00 +0100The Guardian: New Zealand asks: how was the threat from the far right missed?https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/new-zealand-asks-how-was-the-threat-from-the-far-right-missed
<p>Muslim associations have expressed despair that no one in government heeded their warnings about a rise in racism and violence</p><p>As the alleged killer sits in an isolated, maximum security jail cell on the outskirts of Christchurch, many people in New Zealand are wondering how an alt-right extremist who allegedly amassed an arsenal of military grade weapons went undetected for so long.</p><p>Holed up in a wooden bungalow in the seaside town of Dunedin, the alleged shooter was an active member of the local gun club and pumped weights at a South Dunedin gym. He was quiet, but not reclusive, and appears to have made no effort to hide his obsession with military grade weaponry.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/new-zealand-asks-how-was-the-threat-from-the-far-right-missed">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:44:22 +0100NEW YORK POST: Creeps put ‘spy cams’ in hotel rooms, livestreamed video online: copshttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/creeps-put-spy-cams-in-hotel-rooms-livestreamed-video-online-cops/
A pair of creeps were arrested Wednesday in a &#8220;spy camera&#8221; scheme that recorded 1,600 hotel guests across South Korea &#8212; and live-streamed the footage to online subscribers. The suspects nabbed in the disturbing scheme are accused of hiding mini cameras in TV sets, wall sockets and hairdyer holders in dozens of rooms at 30...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:43:05 +0100REUTERS: Iran vows to control prices, boost production despite U.S. sanctionshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/EEllrYl85Ic/iran-vows-to-control-prices-boost-production-despite-u-s-sanctions-idUKKCN1R12WL
Iranian leaders vowed on Thursday to control soaring prices, bring stability to the national currency and create jobs as the nation marked the end of a year of economic crisis fuelled by renewed U.S. sanctions.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~4/EEllrYl85Ic" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:39:37 +0100The Guardian: Man charged with murder of Laureline Garcia-Bertaux in west Londonhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/20/man-charged-with-of-laureline-garcia-bertaux-in-west-london
<p>Kirill Belorusov extradited from his native Estonia and will face court on Thursday<br></p><p>A man has been charged with murder over the death of Laureline Garcia-Bertaux, 34, who was found in a shallow grave in the back garden of her home in Kew, west London, a day after being reported missing on 5 March.</p><p>A Metropolitan police statement said: “Kirill Belorusov, 32, an Estonian national who had been living in London, was arrested on Wednesday 13 March at an address in Tallinn, Estonia, on suspicion of murder.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/20/man-charged-with-of-laureline-garcia-bertaux-in-west-london">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:31:50 +0100REUTERS: Trump's border wall money may come at expense of schools for military kidshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/f7R6CY9p2PE/trumps-border-wall-money-may-come-at-expense-of-schools-for-military-kids-idUKKCN1R12ED
The U.S. Department of Defense is proposing to pay for President Donald Trump's much-debated border wall by shifting funds away from projects that include $1.2 billion (£908.8 million) for schools, childcare centres and other facilities for military children, according to a list it has provided to lawmakers.<div class="feedflare">
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Pet-owners in Florida could be criminally charged under a proposed bill in the state if they leave their dogs tied to a tree while they evacuate their homes, a report said. The residents could be hit with a first-degree misdemeanor if they leave their pets behind — as many Floridians did during Hurricane Irma in...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:29:29 +0100NEW YORK POST: Kentucky governor admits to intentionally infecting his kids with chickenpoxhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/kentucky-governor-admits-to-intentionally-infecting-his-kids-with-chickenpox/
The governor of Kentucky admitted intentionally infecting his kids with chickenpox &#8212; a move that medical experts warn could have deadly results. In an interview with radio station WKCT, Gov. Matt Bevin said he ensured all his children contracted the highly contagious disease so they&#8217;d get sick and become immune to the virus that causes...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:27:08 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Italian Driver Kidnaps Busload of Studentshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/europe/bus-students-kidnaped.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The driver held 51 seventh-graders hostage and set the bus on fire. All the hostages were rescued.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:22:03 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Ethiopian Airlines Installed Max 8 Simulator, but Pilot on Doomed Flight Didn’t Get Traininghttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/africa/ethiopian-airlines-boeing.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
While Ethiopian Airlines was among the first to install the Boeing 737 Max 8 simulator, the captain of Flight 302 had not trained on the simulator.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:21:52 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Ethiopian Airlines Installed Max 8 Simulator, but Pilot on Doomed Flight Didn’t Get Traininghttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/africa/ethiopian-boeing-training-simulator.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
While Ethiopian Airlines was among the first to install the Boeing 737 Max 8 simulator, the captain of Flight 302 had not trained on the simulator.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:21:52 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Rescuers Battle Flooding in Desperate Bid to Save Cyclone Victimshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/africa/mozambique-cyclone.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Nearly a week after southern Africa was hit by one the worst natural disasters in decades, it was all rescue workers could do to try to reach the victims.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:15:30 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Rescuers Battle Flooding in Desperate Bid to Save Cyclone Victimshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/africa/cyclone-idai-rescue.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Nearly a week after southern Africa was hit by one the worst natural disasters in decades, it was all rescue workers could do to try to reach the victims.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:15:30 +0100REUTERS: Canada's Trudeau under pressure as MP quits, budget criticizedhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/DFULxVu1OJU/canadas-trudeau-under-pressure-as-mp-quits-budget-criticized-idUKKCN1R12Z8
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remained under pressure over a corruption scandal on Wednesday as a legislator quit his party's caucus and a pre-election budget aimed at swaying key voters appeared to offer too little to stem the tide of negative news.<div class="feedflare">
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Brazilian mining company Vale SA said on Wednesday it halted operations at its Alegria iron ore mine in Minas Gerais state after a "stress test" in the structures failed to guarantee stability.<div class="feedflare">
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<p>Five former East German officers reportedly suspected of role in 1988 bombing<br></p><p>Investigators into the Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people, are reported to be questioning at least five former agents of the East German secret police about their possible role in Britain’s deadliest ever terror attack.</p><p>The retired Stasi agents are suspected of having been involved in the atrocity, in which transatlantic flight Pan Am 103 was blown up over Scotland in 1988, killing everyone on board and 11 people on the ground.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/20/lockerbie-investigators-question-former-stasi-agents">Continue reading...</a>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:05:35 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Clues to the identity of Iran’s next supreme leader in the back alleys of a holy cityhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/clues-to-the-identity-of-irans-next-supreme-leader-in-the-back-alleys-of-a-holy-city/2019/03/20/a96f857e-2a2d-11e9-906e-9d55b6451eb4_story.html
The question of Ayatollah Khamenei’s successor is a hot topic in Tehran and the Iraqi religious center of Najaf.Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:04:19 +0100REUTERS: U.S. grants Iraq 90-day waiver to buy Iranian energy - State Departmenthttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/oGwhdEs7Cq8/u-s-grants-iraq-90-day-waiver-to-buy-iranian-energy-state-department-idUKKCN1R12XP
The United States granted Iraq a 90-day waiver exempting it from sanctions to buy energy from Iran, a State Department official said on Wednesday, the latest extension allowing Baghdad to keep purchasing electricity from its neighbour.<div class="feedflare">
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OKLAHOMA CITY — A court-ordered inspection of every inmate in the Oklahoma County jail found that a 20-year-old woman had been wrongly incarcerated for two weeks on a warrant that had been dismissed months before, a lawyer said. Giselle Perez was jailed Feb. 26 after a traffic stop because of an outstanding arrest warrant on...Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:05 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): UK prime minister expresses regret over Brexit delayhttp://tass.com/world/1049715
UK Prime Minister Theresa May said that "it is high time we made a decision" on BrexitWed, 20 Mar 2019 23:56:42 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Pentagon inspector general opens probe into Shanahan’s links with Boeinghttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-inspector-general-opens-probe-into-shanahans-links-with-boeing/2019/03/20/ebaa510a-4b55-11e9-b871-978e5c757325_story.html
The Defense Department’s independent watchdog is investigating whether the acting defense secretary took actions to promote his former employer and disparage its competitors.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:55:08 +0100CNBC: CVS has started selling cannabis-based products in 8 stateshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/cvs-has-started-selling-cannabis-based-products-in-8-states.html
The pharmacy chain said the products include topicals such as creams, sprays, roll-ons, lotions and salves.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:50:00 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russia's Central Bank to keep key rate at 7.75% — consensus forecasthttp://tass.com/economy/1049709
Director of the Central Bank's department of monetary policy Alexey Zabotkin said the Central Bank will assess the effectiveness of two key rate increases in 2018 at the March 22 board meetingWed, 20 Mar 2019 23:49:10 +0100NEW YORK POST: Frozen Lake Michigan shatters into stunning ice shardshttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/frozen-lake-michigan-shatters-into-stunning-ice-shards/
Lake Michigan was covered with a blanket of ice shards this week as the spring thaw in the Midwest shattered the frozen water into a million pieces. Captivating images of the shards were taken on Tuesday as The Coast Guard warned locals to be careful as the ice-covered lake began to break apart, according to...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:48:16 +0100Voice of Europe: Brexit Delay Possible if MPs Approve Deal, EU Chief Sayshttps://www.voanews.com/a/brexit-delay-possible-if-mps-approve-deal-eu-chief-says-/4840209.html
The European Union could approve Britain's request for a short delay to Brexit but only if U.K. MPs next week approve the withdrawal deal they have twice rejected, European Council President Donald Tusk said Wednesday.
With nine days to go before Britain is due to leave the bloc, the country is gripped by uncertainty about how to proceed, and Tusk's statement was received as an ultimatum to lawmakers to get behind May's deal.
"I believe a short extension will be possible, but it will be conditional on a positive vote on the withdrawal agreement in the House of Commons," Tusk told reporters.
May told her country in a televised address from Downing Street late Wednesday that she was still "determined" to deliver Brexit and pull Britain through its worst political crisis in a generation.
"You want this stage of the Brexit process to be over and done with this. I agree. I am on your side," May said, adding that she was requesting a delay until June 30 with "great personal regret."
Lawmakers have twice resoundingly rejected May's agreement, and a third vote the premier hoped to hold this week was canceled by the House of Commons speaker on the ground that the same vote could not be held again.
Brussels meeting
May now heads to Brussels for an EU leaders summit Thursday and Friday, where she will hope to secure a possible addition to her agreement that will let her put it to a vote next week.
The pound fell sharply against the euro during the day, reflecting fears that Britain could crash out without any agreement at all.
Exactly 1,000 days on from Britain's seismic 2016 vote to split from the other EU nations, the country is unclear about the path ahead.
'Credibility'
May said any postponement beyond the end of June would undermine voters' trust.
"It is high time we made a decision" on leaving, May said in her address.
However, the European Commission advised EU leaders that it would be preferable to either have a shorter delay to May 23 — when voting begins in European Parliament elections — or a much longer one, until at least the end of 2019.
A spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed London's "clear request" and said she would "make every effort" to bring about an agreement at the Brussels summit.
But her foreign minister, Heiko Maas of the junior coalition partner Social Democrats, said May's letter "only pushes the solution further down the road".
And in Paris, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had a tough message.
"A situation in which Mrs. May is unable to deliver sufficient guarantees on the credibility of her strategy at the European Council meeting would lead to the request being refused and a preference for a no deal," he said.
Country in crisis
The British Parliament has been deadlocked for months over Brexit, with MPs unable to decide how to implement the referendum result, and voters themselves are also sharply divided.
But Britain is now in crisis, facing the potentially catastrophic prospect of leaving its biggest trading partner after 46 years with no arrangements in place.
May had reluctantly accepted that a delay to Brexit was needed, and told MPs Wednesday she had written to Tusk.
"Some argue that I am making the wrong choice and I should ask for a longer extension to the end of the year or beyond, to give more time for politicians to argue over the way forward," May told Britons in her special message.
"That would mean asking you to vote in European elections nearly three years after our country voted to leave. What kind of message would that send?"
Elections for the European Parliament will be held at the end of May.
Resignation threat?
In her letter, May said she intended to bring her deal back to the Commons "as soon as possible," arguing that if it passed, she would need the delay to implement the treaty.
If the text is rejected a third time, May told lawmakers earlier on Wednesday that Parliament would have to decide what happened next.
"As prime minister, I am not prepared to delay Brexit any further than June 30," she told lawmakers, in comments interpreted as a hint about her own future.
May's team will try to engage senior members of the main opposition Labor Party, hoping to bring enough of its members on side to pull her deal through.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:43:53 +0100REUTERS: Khamenei says Iran has successfully resisted U.S. sanctionshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/ysnp6GKgrEg/khamenei-says-iran-has-successfully-resisted-u-s-sanctions-idUKKCN1R12WL
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday in a new year speech broadcast on state TV that the Islamic Republic successfully resisted "unprecedented, strong" U.S. sanctions.<div class="feedflare">
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The widow and daughter of John McCain on Wednesday criticized President Donald Trump and his online supporters for repeated attacks on the former U.S. senator, Republican presidential nominee and Vietnam War hero who was tortured during five and a half years spent as a prisoner of war.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~4/ySX9e-81D2E" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:34:37 +0100The Guardian: Widow of murdered Mexico journalist was surveillance target days after deathhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/widow-of-murdered-mexico-journalist-was-surveillance-target-days-after-death
<ul><li>Government-linked spyware sent to Griselda Triana’s phone</li><li>Husband Javier Valdez was murdered only 10 days previously</li></ul><p>Even in a country long-used to violence, the cowardly 2017 murder of the Mexican journalist Javier Valdez prompted outrage: reporters held protests, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/17/mexico-journalist-murder-javier-valdez-drug-cartels">news outlets stopped publishing for a day</a> and the then president, Enrique Peña Nieto, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-violence-journalists/amid-heckles-mexico-president-vows-more-to-stop-reporter-murders-idUSKCN18D2TA">promised that the crime would not go unpunished</a>.</p><p>But barely 10 days after Valdez was pulled from his car and shot dead, his widow Griselda Triana was targeted for surveillance with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/19/mexico-cellphone-software-spying-journalists-activists">spyware which had been purchased by the Mexican government</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/widow-of-murdered-mexico-journalist-was-surveillance-target-days-after-death">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:34:04 +0100REUTERS: Congo Ebola outbreak spreads to city of Buniahttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/xUfCZnt17o0/congo-ebola-outbreak-spreads-to-city-of-bunia-idUKKCN1R12VR
Health authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed a case of Ebola in another city of close to 1 million people, the health ministry said on Wednesday.<div class="feedflare">
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Venezuelan security forces, backed by pro-government militias, have quashed peaceful protests with excessive use of force, killings and torture, U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday.<div class="feedflare">
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India's Reliance Industries, operator of the world's biggest refining complex, has turned to selling fuels to Venezuela from India and Europe to circumvent sanctions that bar U.S.-based companies from dealing with state-run PDVSA, according to trading sources and Refinitiv Eikon data.<div class="feedflare">
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The British PM blamed MPs - of all sides - for playing political games with Brexit, as she plans another vote to win their support for her Brexit deal.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:32:02 +0100NEW YORK POST: Ex-Florida spa owner denies selling access to Trumphttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/ex-florida-spa-owner-denies-selling-access-to-trump/
The former owner of a Florida spa mired in a prostitution scandal — a frequent visitor to Mar-a-Lago and GOP donor — denied reports that she sold access to Trump to Chinese business officials. Li “Cindy” Yang told NBC News she’s been targeted with accusations that she’s a Chinese agent only because of her ethnicity...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:31:37 +0100BBC: Forty-five rattlesnakes found under Texas househttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47647703
A man called for help after spotting a few snakes. When the professionals arrived, they found a lot more.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:31:17 +0100REUTERS: U.S. Senate panel to first grill FAA, then Boeing after fatal crasheshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/FsVyLSJ6wWk/u-s-senate-panel-to-first-grill-faa-then-boeing-after-fatal-crashes-idUKKCN1R12OX
A U.S. Senate panel plans a hearing on March 27 on aviation safety after two fatal Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft crashes since October, and said it will also schedule a future hearing with Boeing and other manufacturers, officials said on Wednesday.<div class="feedflare">
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<p>The now category one storm is expected to intensify, bringing destructive winds, heavy rain and dangerous storm tide</p><p>Cyclone Trevor is heading for the Northern Territory, after leaving a trail of destruction behind in north Queensland.</p><p>The now category one storm is offshore over the eastern Gulf of Carpentaria and is due to cross the gulf on Thursday or Friday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/cyclone-trevor-could-reach-category-4-as-it-crosses-northern-territory-coast">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:29:24 +0100CNBC: Cramer: The court can rein in Tesla CEO Elon Musk with one of these three moveshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/cramer-the-court-can-rein-in-teslas-musk-with-one-of-three-options.html
Jim Cramer explains why a federal judge must remove Musk as CEO, install a watch on the board, or charge the Tesla co-founder for violating a court-approved order.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:28:00 +0100REUTERS: Boeing delays by months test flights for U.S. human space programme - sourceshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/Q7L0SHBxhFs/boeing-delays-by-months-test-flights-for-u-s-human-space-programme-sources-idUKKCN1R12QP
Boeing Co has delayed by at least three months its first uncrewed flight to the International Space Station under NASA's human spaceflight programme, and pushed its crewed flight until November, industry sources said on Wednesday.<div class="feedflare">
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Bolivian Foreign Minister Diego Pary said that among topics that the Bolivian side wants to discuss in Moscow are "cooperation with Gazprom and investment into the Center for Nuclear Research"Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:19:54 +0100REUTERS: Palestinian killed in West Bank by Israeli gunfire - Palestinian medicshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/CXrM7lqTt9A/palestinian-killed-in-west-bank-by-israeli-gunfire-palestinian-medics-idUKKCN1R12UT
A Palestinian was shot and killed in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday by what a Palestinian ambulance service said was Israeli army gunfire.<div class="feedflare">
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Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:14:44 +0100REUTERS: U.S. envoy to Afghanistan to brief counterparts on peace efforthttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/4DzLEKVy4WM/u-s-envoy-to-afghanistan-to-brief-counterparts-on-peace-effort-idUKKCN1R12UI
The U.S. special representative for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, will meet with Chinese, Russian and European Union diplomats on Afghanistan on Thursday as he tries to forge a peace deal with the Taliban to bring an end to America's longest war.<div class="feedflare">
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"Not my kind of guy," the president says of the late Republican senator in his latest attack on him.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:13:15 +0100(USA) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Shanahan: Space Force to Preserve Margin of Dominance, $19 Trillion Economyhttps://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1790830/shanahan-space-force-to-preserve-margin-of-dominance-19-trillion-economy/
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:13:13 +0100REUTERS: Solomon Islands look beyond Taiwan alliance as election loomshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/cm4YBPL_Iow/solomon-islands-look-beyond-taiwan-alliance-as-election-looms-idUKKCN1R12TP
As politicians hit the hustings across the Solomon Islands two weeks out from a general election in the South Pacific archipelago, the loyalty of one of Taiwan's few remaining allies is in the balance.<div class="feedflare">
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Thousands of fighters remain in the region, but they have gone underground, carrying out quick strikes in the region and continuing to promote their ideology worldwide.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:11:43 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: The Evolution of ISIS: From a State to a Sliverhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/middleeast/isis-syria-defeated.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Thousands of fighters remain in the region, but they have gone underground, carrying out quick strikes in the region and continuing to promote their ideology worldwide.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:11:43 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: The Evolution of ISIS: From a State to a Sliverhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/middleeast/fall-of-isis.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Thousands of fighters remain in the region, but they have gone underground, carrying out quick strikes in the region and continuing to promote their ideology worldwide.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:11:43 +0100CNBC: Cramer: US-China trade talks is now more about a 'trust gap' than the 'trade gap'https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/cramer-china-trade-talks-is-now-more-about-trust-than-the-trade-gap.html
Jim Cramer explains why he thinks President Donald Trump plans to leave tariffs in place and why the Federal Reserve helped in his trade standoff with China.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:10:00 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Netanyahu Presses Pompeo on Israeli Sovereignty of Golan Heightshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/middleeast/netanyahu-pompeo-golan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised the issue during a visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, whose agency no longer says the territory is “occupied.”Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:08:36 +0100The Guardian: US judge halts hundreds of drilling projects in groundbreaking climate change rulinghttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/20/judge-halts-drilling-climate-change-trump-administration
<p>In a rebuke of the Trump administration’s ‘energy-first’ agenda, a judge rules greenhouse gas emissions must be considered</p><p>In the first significant check on the Trump administration’s “energy-first” agenda, a US judge has temporarily halted hundreds of drilling projects for failing to take climate change into account.<br><br>Drilling had been stalled on more than 300,000 acres of public land in Wyoming after it was ruled the Trump administration violated environmental laws by failing to consider greenhouse gas emissions. The federal judge has ordered the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which manages US public lands and issues leases to the energy industry, to redo its analysis.</p><p>The decision stems from an environmental lawsuit. WildEarth Guardians, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the Western Environmental Law Center sued the BLM in 2016 for failing to calculate and limit the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from future oil and gas projects.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/20/judge-halts-drilling-climate-change-trump-administration">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:08:00 +0100REUTERS: Dutch government loses Senate majority amid populist surgehttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/t7lg30znEX4/dutch-government-loses-senate-majority-amid-populist-surge-idUKKCN1R10SW
The Dutch government will lose its majority in the Senate after provincial elections on Wednesday, according to exit polls, as voters flocked to a new populist party two days after a possible terrorist attack in the city of Utrecht.<div class="feedflare">
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The painting, “View of a Dutch Square,” had been bought by St. Victor’s Cathedral in Xanten without knowing that it had been looted, in 1963.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:00:04 +0100The Guardian: 'New bizarre low': Trump faces backlash after reviving McCain attackshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/20/donald-trump-john-mccain-attack
<p>Republicans such as Lindsey Graham and Mitt Romney defended the late senator after the president said he ‘never liked’ him</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/mar/20/donald-trump-latest-news-live-us-politics-ohio-mccain">Follow the latest in US politics – live</a></li></ul><p>Donald Trump renewed attacks on the late senator John McCain, stating he “never liked” the Arizona Republican and “probably never will”.</p><p>The president faced widespread backlash for reviving his criticism of McCain, who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/25/john-mccain-influential-us-senator-and-ex-presidential-candidate-dies-aged-81">died of brain cancer</a> last year.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/20/donald-trump-john-mccain-attack">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:59:52 +0100REUTERS: Boeing, FAA officials called to testify in U.S. Senate on 737 MAX plane crasheshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/cCDYsd3jFgs/boeing-faa-officials-called-to-testify-in-u-s-senate-on-737-max-plane-crashes-idUKKCN1R11A0
Boeing Co faced growing pressure in Washington on Wednesday with U.S. lawmakers calling for executives to testify about two crashed 737 MAX jets even as the world's biggest planemaker works to overcome obstacles to returning the grounded fleet to the skies.<div class="feedflare">
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The FBI is now probing Boeing and its controversial 737 MAX certification process, along with federal aviation investigators, a report says. Sources told The Seattle Times on Wednesday that agents have started assisting the Department of Transportation with its ongoing inquiry, which is being overseen by the Justice Department&#8217;s criminal division and carried out by...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:56:48 +0100CNBC: Levi Strauss prices IPO at $17 a sharehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/levi-strauss-will-price-at-17-a-share-in-its-ipo.html
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:55:00 +0100REUTERS: Colombia court says cannot yet rule on possible changes to peace lawhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/JpYtOrzti9s/colombia-court-says-cannot-yet-rule-on-possible-changes-to-peace-law-idUKKCN1R12TD
Colombia's constitutional court said on Wednesday it cannot rule on whether potential changes to legislation that implements a peace deal with Marxist rebels are constitutional until after they are approved by congress.<div class="feedflare">
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Dramatic bodycam video shows police officers catching them from a third floor apartment in the American state of Iowa.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:53:43 +0100REUTERS: Saudi king calls Morocco king to review 'brotherly relations'http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/RHuy-dJHTCY/saudi-king-calls-morocco-king-to-review-brotherly-relations-idUKKCN1R12T4
Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud called Morocco's King Mohammed VI to review "brotherly relations" between the two countries, state news agency SPA said on Wednesday.<div class="feedflare">
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The United Nations will hold a conference inside Libya in April to discuss elections as a way out of the country's eight-year-long conflict, a U.N. envoy said on Wednesday, although it remains to be seen whether powerful factions will attend.<div class="feedflare">
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Executives at Vale SA, the world's largest iron ore miner, quashed efforts by Brazilian authorities to audit one of the company's mining dams months before it collapsed and killed over 300 people, a state prosecutor was quoted as saying by news website G1 on Wednesday.<div class="feedflare">
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Head of the Russian reconciliation center Viktor Kupchishin said there are currently around 40,000 people staying at the Rukban campWed, 20 Mar 2019 22:44:22 +0100REUTERS: Europe's centre-right suspends Hungary's ruling partyhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/90F-qUh0LsA/europes-centre-right-suspends-hungarys-ruling-party-idUKKCN1R11AO
The European Parliament's main centre-right grouping voted on Wednesday to suspend Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling Fidesz Party until further notice amid concerns that it has violated EU principles on the rule of law.<div class="feedflare">
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The government of Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has seen its popularity plummet since he took office in January, with just a third of those asked approving of its performance, according to a poll published on Wednesday.<div class="feedflare">
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The widow and daughter of John McCain - former U.S. senator, Republican presidential nominee and Vietnam War hero - on Wednesday criticized President Donald Trump and his online supporters for attacking McCain and his family.<div class="feedflare">
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The kidnap follows the abduction of a top football club coach on Tuesday.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:35:48 +0100REUTERS: Boeing delays flight test to International Space Station - sourceshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/DIhxgL_l58U/boeing-delays-flight-test-to-international-space-station-sources-idUKKCN1R12QP
Boeing Co has delayed by at least three months its first uncrewed flight to the International Space Station under NASA's human spaceflight programme, and pushed its crewed flight until November, industry sources said on Wednesday.<div class="feedflare">
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(The March 18 story corrects the eighth paragraph to say Pentagon adviser is embedded, not that the State Department provides funding)<div class="feedflare">
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<p>Panel plans to call Boeing and other aviation manufacturers to testify following fatal Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air crashes</p><p>A US Senate committee plans a hearing on 27 March on aviation safety after two fatal Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft crashes since October, and said it will also schedule a hearing with Boeing and other manufacturers, officials said on Wednesday.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/lion-air-pilots-were-looking-at-handbook-when-plane-crashed">Lion Air pilots were looking at handbook when plane crashed</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/20/boeing-737-max-senate-committee-aviation-safety-hearing">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:29:40 +0100WASHINGTON POST: What’s next after UK seeks 3-month delay to Brexit?https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/whats-next-after-uk-seeks-3-month-delay-to-brexit/2019/03/20/eda991d6-4b56-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
What’s next after UK seeks 3-month delay to Brexit?Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:27:14 +0100NEW YORK POST: JetBlue pilots drugged, raped three female crew members: suithttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/jetblue-pilots-drugged-raped-three-female-crew-members-suit/
A pair of JetBlue pilots raped two female airline workers during a layover in Puerto Rico &#8212; and left one of the victims with an STD, a new Brooklyn lawsuit charges. The heinous incident occurred in San Juan on May 9, after the female crew members met Flight Officers Eric Johnson and Dan Watson on...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:20:53 +0100CNBC: Bill Ackman's hedge fund gains 30% this year after recent losing streakhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/bill-ackmans-hedge-fund-gains-30percent-this-year.html
Bill Ackman&#039;s hedge fund is roaring back from a recent losing streak.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:20:00 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Global Health: A Twin Inside a Twin: In Colombia, an Extraordinary Birthhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/health/twins-fetus-colombia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
What appeared to be a cyst in a healthy fetus turned out to be an unformed twin “absorbed” early in pregnancy, connected by a second umbilical cord and still growing.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:19:22 +0100CNBC: Amazon is blocking ads for unprofitable products as part of a plan to bolster its bottom linehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/amazon-aggressively-suspending-ads-of-unprofitable-products-as-focus-on-the-bottom-line-grows.html
Amazon has been more aggressively enforcing its policy of suspending ads if the product being promoted doesn&#039;t make money.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:19:00 +0100REUTERS: Dutch government stands to lose Senate majority - exit pollhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/YIVEIwnbgEs/dutch-government-stands-to-lose-senate-majority-exit-poll-idUKKCN1R12Q4
The Dutch governing coalition will lose its majority in the senate as a result of provincial elections in which a far right populist party booked major gains, according to an exit poll commissioned by national broadcaster NOS.<div class="feedflare">
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Russia’s Ambassador in Vienna Dmitry Lyubinsky said that Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen will visit Moscow in the coming monthsWed, 20 Mar 2019 22:14:19 +0100NEW YORK POST: Passenger who broke pelvis on Royal Caribbean attraction sueshttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/passenger-who-broke-pelvis-on-royal-caribbean-attraction-sues/
A 25-year-old man is taking legal action against Royal Caribbean because he hasn&#8217;t bounced back from an injury suffered aboard one of their cruise ships, according to reports. The passenger, Casey Holladay, said he was trying out a new bungee trampoline ride on a Royal Caribbean cruise to the Bahamas last month when he suddenly...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:08:45 +0100REUTERS: Iran says four of a group of kidnapped security personnel are freed - Fars newshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/XEYBx2SzrH8/iran-says-four-of-a-group-of-kidnapped-security-personnel-are-freed-fars-news-idUKKCN1R12OR
Four of the Iranian border guards kidnapped last year by a Sunni militant group on the border with Pakistan were released on Wednesday, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said.<div class="feedflare">
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Honeywell supplies mechanical systems and avionics for the Boeing 737 Max, but not flight controls or flight management systems.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:05:00 +0100(USA) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Guardsmen Spring into Action for Rescue, Relief Operations in Nebraskahttps://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1790780/guardsmen-spring-into-action-for-rescue-relief-operations-in-nebraska/
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So rapid in succession were the burials, some mourners paying respects to one person had to run from the burial plots to a marquee across the lawn in time to pray for the next.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:01:31 +0100REUTERS: U.S. Senate panel hearing set for March 27 with FAA, Boeing after fatal crasheshttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/OoOMNdLGOPk/u-s-senate-panel-hearing-set-for-march-27-with-faa-boeing-after-fatal-crashes-idUKKCN1R12OX
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Turkey is heralding as groundbreaking a joint military operation with Iran against Kurdish rebel groups. Turkish-Iranian relations have markedly improved, to the concern of Turkey's Western allies.
Coordinated and concurrent military strikes against "terror groups" were carried out along the "borders of the two countries," read a statement by the Iranian Interior Ministry, released Wednesday and reported by Turkish media. The announcement came two days after Iran, through military sources quoted by the Fars news agency, denied involvement.
The Turkish interior minister, Suleyman Soylu, announced the operation Monday, declaring it "a first in history." The operation targeted the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which is fighting a decades-long insurgency for greater minority rights in Turkey.
Few details about the joint military mission, however, have been given by either Ankara or Tehran, other than a few photos, released Wednesday, showing Turkish soldiers in mountainous regions.
Ankara has long courted Tehran's support in its war against the PKK. The rebel group has used Iranian territory to enter Turkey from its main bases in Iraq, located near the Iranian border.
According to former senior Turkish diplomat Aydin Selcen, Tehran's support would be essential in targeting the PKK's headquarters in Iraq's Qandil mountains.
"Iran is geographically important because the entry to Qandil is on the Iranian side, as Qandil is a complex mountainous region that is almost inaccessible," Selcen said.
Claims seen as not 'realistic'
Selcen opened Turkey's consulate in Iraq's Kurdish region and served in Baghdad, spending much of his time working on countering the PKK. Selcen has voiced skepticism about Ankara's claims of a breakthrough with Tehran in Ankara's war against the PKK.
"I don't find it realistic that such a [joint] operation took place. We have always heard for years that Iran will offer such cooperation, and it never happened. Because Iran has its problems with its Kurdish population, they would prefer to keep their own Kurdish region quiet," Selcen said.
The PKK has an Iranian wing called PJAK, which in recent years has mostly avoided confrontation with Iran's military forces.
Analysts often describe Iranian-Turkish relations as a combination of cooperation and rivalry. However, they say efforts to end the Syrian conflict are providing the impetus to strengthen bilateral cooperation, even though Iran and Turkey backed rival sides in the civil war.
The deepening bilateral relations coincide with a souring in ties between Turkey and the United States. Turkey is angered by America's support of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in its war against Islamic State. Turkey claims the YPG is affiliated with the PKK.
Turkish and U.S. military officials are in talks over the creation of a security zone in Syria to protect Turkey's border from the YPG.
With Turkish media reporting the U.S.-Turkish talks deadlocked, analysts suggest the announced Iranian-Turkish operation is sending a signal to Washington that Ankara has alternatives in combating the PKK and its affiliates.
"It's a credible idea if you are sitting behind your desk in Ankara," said Selcen. "But whether such a move will have much effect today on the U.S., I am not so sure, because Turkey and U.S. relations as they are right now have enough troubles. ... So it could be quite a risky strategy."
Pulling Ankara from West
Analysts say Iran, along with Russia, is working to draw Ankara away from its traditional Western allies. Both countries have committed themselves to developing deeper trade relationships with Turkey.
They point out, however, that there are limitations to this courtship, given they remain rivals in the region.
"We get no trading favors from either Iran or Russia, and that does not surprise me," said analyst Atilla Yesilada of Global Source Partners, a business management consultancy in New York. "Iran and Russia understand a more prosperous Turkey would invade their markets and would eventually become a political rival to them."
Four years ago, Tehran and Ankara signed a preferential trade agreement to boost annual trade to $35 billion. In 2018, bilateral trade amounted to $9.3 billion, a nine-year low.
Trade is set to worsen after the Iranian parliament passed legislation in January aimed at encouraging use of locally produced goods.
"I don't know if it [the new legislation] is specifically against Turkish imports, but in reality, it does affect a lot of Turkish imports into Iran," said Yesilada. "I have spoken to dozens of businesses who told me Iranians had not granted any favors to Turkish businesspeople."
Similar skepticism has been expressed in the past by Turkish officials regarding Tehran's commitment to assisting Ankara in combating the PKK. "They always talk about cooperation, but when it comes to it, they do nothing," said a senior Turkish counterterrorism official, who asked not to be identified. Turkish government ministers in the past went as far as accusing Tehran of supporting the PKK in a bid to weaken Turkey.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is campaigning ahead of hotly contested local elections, is aware anti-Western rhetoric and policies play well with his nationalist and religious base. Analysts suggest with the election results of the last four years, Erdogan may have more room to maneuver for a diplomatic reset.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:00:32 +0100The Guardian: NSW election: Michael Daley stumbles over spending in final debatehttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/20/nsw-election-leaders-debate-gatecrashed-by-australian-conservatives
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<div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wed, 2019-03-20 23:41</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
JEDDAH: Former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, widely known as the “Butcher of Bosnia,” has had his sentence for genocide and war crimes increased to life in prison.</p>
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He was appealing a 2016 verdict in which he was given a 40-year sentence for the Srebrenica massacre in the 1992-95 Bosnian war.</p>
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More than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed in the town of Srebrenica by Bosnian-Serb forces in July 1995. Karadzic, 73, was also found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. </p>
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The UN court said the 40-year sentence did not reflect the trial chamber’s analysis on the “gravity and responsibility for the largest and greatest set of crimes ever attributed to a single person at the ICTY (the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia).”</p>
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The ruling by the judges on Wednesday cannot be appealed, and will end one of the highest-profile legal battles stemming from the Balkan wars.</p>
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Karadzic showed almost no reaction as presiding Judge Vagn Joensen of Denmark read out the damning judgment.</p>
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The former leader is one of the most senior figures tried by The Hague’s war crimes court. His case is considered as key in delivering justice for the victims of the Bosnian conflict, which left more than 100,000 people dead and millions homeless.</p>
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Joensen said the trial chamber was wrong to impose a sentence of just 40 years, given what he called the “sheer scale and systematic cruelty” of Karadzic’s crimes. Applause broke out in the public gallery as Joensen passed the new sentence.</p>
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Families of victims who traveled to The Hague hailed the verdict. Mothers, some elderly and walking with canes, wept with apparent relief after watching the ruling read on a screen in Srebrenica.</p>
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Halim Grabus, a Bosnian-Muslim diplomat based in Geneva, told Arab News that the verdict “will act as a deterrent against the criminals responsible for the genocide of Muslims during the 1992-1995 war. He (Karadzic) should never be allowed to go free. He deserves maximum punishment.”</p>
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Grabus was in Bosnia during the war, and witnessed the scorched-earth policy of Karadzic and his fellow generals.</p>
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Grabus said it was not possible in today’s world to expect total justice, “but the verdict is important for the victims and survivors of Karadzic’s genocidal politics and ideology of hate.” </p>
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A large majority of Serbs “continue to justify what he did, and continue to carry forward his hateful campaign against Bosnian Muslims,” Grabus added.</p>
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“Many of the killers of Muslims during the Bosnian war are still roaming free. They need to be arrested and brought to justice.”</p>
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Ratko Mladic, a Bosnian-Serb wartime military commander, is awaiting an appeal judgment of his genocide and war crimes conviction, which earned him a life sentence. Both he and Karadzic were convicted of genocide for their roles in the Srebrenica massacre.</p>
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The move endangers the European Parliament’s most powerful political alliance — one that has shielded the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, as he has dismantled checks on his power.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:53:49 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Militant groups are using Christchurch mosque shootings to spread a message of hatehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/militant-groups-are-using-christchurch-mosque-shootings-to-spread-a-message-of-hate/2019/03/20/ccd930ca-4a6f-11e9-b79a-961983b7e0cd_story.html
Intelligence officials say the video of the killing of Muslim worshipers is an especially powerful propaganda tool.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:53:30 +0100REUTERS: U.S. FAA says Boeing to develop service bulletin on 737 MAX, calls it 'agency priority'http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/y2NvGttZhuM/u-s-faa-says-boeing-to-develop-service-bulletin-on-737-max-calls-it-agency-priority-idUKKCN1R12OE
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday that Boeing Co is developing a service bulletin instructing airlines to install new flight control computer operational programme software in the now grounded Boeing 737 MAX.<div class="feedflare">
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Ukraine's president has ordered new sanctions against Russian companies and individuals involved in construction and other activities in Crimea.
Top Russian lawmakers are among the people potentially affected by the decree President Petro Poroshenko's signed Wednesday. It targeted those involved in building a bridge from Russia to Crimea and a November incident on the Black Sea in which Russia seized Ukrainian navy vessels and their crews.
Individuals involved in staging local elections in areas of eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russia separatists were also targeted. Russia has thrown its weight behind the separatists.
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Theresa May says it’s a matter of “great personal regret” that U.K. won’t leave EU with a deal on March 29Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:43:16 +0100REUTERS: FBI joins criminal investigation into Boeing 737 MAX certification - reporthttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/dLr8KF4tS7g/fbi-joins-criminal-investigation-into-boeing-737-max-certification-report-idUKKCN1R12NK
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Boeing has been working on a software update that is expected to correct issues with the 737 Max maneuvering characteristics augmentation system.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:36:00 +0100REUTERS: Battle for last Islamic State enclave edges towards its endhttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/tNtF1Q8UZZI/battle-for-last-islamic-state-enclave-edges-towards-its-end-idUKKCN1R10MW
The operation to take Islamic State's last enclave in eastern Syria looked close to an end on Wednesday, with no sign of clashes as U.S.-backed fighters said they were combing the area for hidden jihadists.<div class="feedflare">
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Ukraine’s president has ordered new sanctions against Russian companies and individuals involved in construction and other activities in CrimeaWed, 20 Mar 2019 21:32:08 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russia’s Lavrov discusses sustainable development goals with UN officialshttp://tass.com/world/1049708
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Director-General of the UN Office at Geneva attended the working lunch with the Russian foreign ministerWed, 20 Mar 2019 21:31:03 +0100REUTERS: In fresh blow to Canada PM Trudeau, lawmaker quits his caucushttp://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKWorldNews/~3/0HUPDCz9XG8/in-fresh-blow-to-canada-pm-trudeau-lawmaker-quits-his-caucus-idUKKCN1R12K0
In a fresh blow to the embattled government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a legislator quit his ruling Liberal Party to sit as an independent on Wednesday after defending a former minister at the centre of a political scandal.<div class="feedflare">
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The United Nation’s high commissioner for human rights worries recent U.S. sanctions aimed to topple Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro could harm the nation’s peopleWed, 20 Mar 2019 21:24:23 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Rise of First Daughter in Kazakhstan Fuels Talk of Successionhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/asia/rise-of-first-daughter-in-kazakhstan-fuels-talk-of-succession.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Dariga Nazarbayeva boosted her chance of following her father as president, but a messy divorce and the lurid death of her former husband might get in the way.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:24:23 +0100CNBC: Trump finally got his wish from the Fed, but not for the reasons he wantedhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/trump-comments-on-federal-reserve-interest-rate-decision.html
The Fed took a pause on interest rate hikes, which would seem to satisfy President Donald Trump if not for the reasons that are driving the move.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:23:00 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Russia Changes Economic Reporting. The Results Improve.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/europe/russia-income-statistics.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The state statistics agency has halted monthly publication of personal income data, which had been downbeat for years. A flurry of optimistic economic data has followed.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:18:02 +0100CNBC: Google was slapped with another huge EU fine — and investors didn't bat an eyehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/google-eu-fine-investors-not-worried.html
It seems any initial shock of an antitrust threat has worn off.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:16:00 +0100CNBC: Boeing drops on report FBI is joining criminal investigation into certification of Boeing 737 Maxhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/boeing-drops-on-report-fbi-is-joining-criminal-investigation-into-certification-of-boeing-737-max.html
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:10:00 +0100NEW YORK POST: Woman fights back during sexual assault, gives accused black eye: copshttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/woman-fights-back-during-sexual-assault-gives-accused-black-eye-cops/
A Florida woman left an attacker, who reportedly mistook her for a prostitute and sexually assaulted her, with a fat black eye, police said. The woman was hanging outside El Reventon Sports Bar &amp; Club in Deerfield Beach on the night of St.Patrick&#8217;s Day when 18-year-old Henrry Gonzalez-Thomas, of Pompano Beach, solicited her, police told...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:07:41 +0100BBC: Fake pathologist for Germanwings air crash victims on trialhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47646233
The Dutch man examined victims of major disasters like the 2015 Germanwings air crash.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:02:35 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Hungary’s Orban earns rare rebuke from European bloc that has long backed himhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/hungarys-orban-earns-rare-rebuke-from-european-bloc-that-has-long-backed-him/2019/03/20/83be110a-4b17-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Europe’s most powerful political family voted to suspend his party’s membership until further notice.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:02:25 +0100CNBC: Walmart's Chief Technology Officer Jeremy King is leaving the companyhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/walmarts-chief-technology-officer-jeremy-king-is-leaving-the-company.html
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:00:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Puerto Rico lures tech developers as hurricane season loomshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/puerto-rico-lures-tech-developers-as-hurricane-season-looms/2019/03/20/9b7cfc88-4b4a-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Young tech developers are roving Puerto Rico with laptops, transmitters and drones to test new systems that might help survivors communicate with authorities after a natural disaster and speed up response times to minimize deathsWed, 20 Mar 2019 20:59:02 +0100The Guardian: Morning mail: No-deal Brexit looms, Daley's stumble, Lion Air cockpit reporthttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/morning-mail-no-deal-brexit-looms-daleys-stumble-lion-air-cockpit-report
<p>Thursday: Britain in utter mess as EU insists deal must pass if Brexit is to be delayed. Plus: medical groups call for action on Indigenous suicide </p><p>Good morning, this is Helen Sullivan bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Thursday 21 March.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/morning-mail-no-deal-brexit-looms-daleys-stumble-lion-air-cockpit-report">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:58:08 +0100NEW YORK POST: Police chief’s daughter kills self, 2 kids in murder-suicidehttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/police-chiefs-daughter-kills-self-2-kids-in-murder-suicide/
The daughter of a Wisconsin tribal police chief allegedly killed her two kids before taking her own life, officials said. Police said 28-year-old Emma LaRoque and her two children were discovered dead Monday afternoon at their home in Ogema, which is about 150 miles northwest of Green Bay, Vally News Live reported. LaRoque fatally shot...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:56:25 +0100Voice of Europe: Italy: Driver Abducts Schoolchildren, Sets Bus Ablazehttps://www.voanews.com/a/italy-driver-abducts-schoolchildren-sets-bus-ablaze/4840008.html
A bus driver in northern Italy abducted 51 children and their chaperones Wednesday, ordering the children's hands to be bound and threatening them with death during the 40-minute ordeal, before setting the vehicle on fire when he was stopped by a Carabinieri blockade.
Officer broke glass windows in the back of the bus and got all the passengers to safety without serious injury before the flames destroyed the vehicle, authorities said. As he was apprehended, the driver said he was protesting migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, Commander Luca De Marchis told Sky TG24.
De Marchis told Sky TG24 that the driver, an Italian citizen of Senegalese origin in his 40s, threatened the passengers, telling them that “no one would survive today” as he commandeered the bus carrying two middle-school classes to a nearby gym in Cremona province, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Milan.
ANSA quoted one of the students as saying the driver took all their phones and ordered the chaperones to bind the students' hands with cable ties, threatening to spill gas and set the bus ablaze. ANSA said the chaperones only loosely bound several students' hands, not everyone's.
One of the middle school students described his terror in an interview with La Repubblica TV, his face obscured due to his age. His name was not given.
“We were all very afraid because the driver had emptied the gas canister onto the floor (of the bus.) He tied us up and took all the telephones so we could not call the police,” the student said.
“One of the telephones, belonging to a classmate, fell to the ground, so I pulled off the handcuffs, hurting myself a bit, and went and picked it up. We called the Carabinieri and the police.”
Authorities said that an adult called an emergency operator, while one of the students called a parent, and they alerted authorities, who set up roadblocks. The bus was intercepted on the outskirts of Milan by three Carabinieri vehicles, which were able to force it into the guardrail, De Marchis said.
“While two officers kept the driver busy — he took a lighter and threatened to set fire to the vehicle with a gasoline canister on board — the others forced open the back door, breaking two windows,” De Marchis said. While the evacuation was still underway, the driver started the blaze.
De Marchis credited the officers' “swiftness and courage,” for getting out all the children and their teachers “with no tragic consequences.”
Some of the passengers were treated at a hospital, mostly for cuts and scratches related to the evacuation, he said.
The driver was apprehended and was being treated for burns. ANSA identified him as Ousseynou Sy, and said he was being investigated on suspicion of kidnapping, intention to commit a massacre, arson and resisting law enforcement. The prosecutor's office later said they would add terrorism as an aggravating circumstance, since the event caused panic.
De Marchis said he had previous convictions, but did not specify their nature.
ANSA reported that Sy, who became an Italian citizen in 2004, had been convicted in 2007 and 2011 of drunken driving and sexual molestation of a minor. Sky TG24 said that the driver had worked for the bus company for 15 years without any employment-related issues.
"Investigators must clarify how the transport company permitted such a delinquent ... to drive a bus, especially one carrying children," said Riccardo De Corato, a Milan provincial official for security.
Video showed firefighters dousing the bus that had been completely gutted by flames, leaving only the charred metal frame.
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:50:20 +0100The Hindu International: Short Brexit delay possible only if U.K. Parliament backs deal: EUhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/short-brexit-delay-possible-only-if-uk-parliament-backs-deal-eu/article26594816.ece
Warns extension beyond May 23 will pose institutional difficulties, legal uncertaintyWed, 20 Mar 2019 20:37:17 +0100CNBC: Pentagon to probe if acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan used his office to help Boeinghttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/pentagon-to-probe-if-patrick-shanahan-used-his-office-to-help-boeing.html
The Pentagon&#039;s inspector general says it will investigate a watchdog group&#039;s allegations that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has used his office to promote his former employer, Boeing.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:36:00 +0100CNBC: Global growth is 'unlikely' if China trade and Brexit are not resolved, FedEx CEO sayshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/global-growth-is-unlikely-without-china-brexit-solutions-fedex-ceo.html
Jim Cramer chats with FedEx CEO Fred Smith about the company&#039;s reduction in growth expectations as U.S.-China trade and Brexit linger.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:36:00 +0100CNBC: Stanford professor: Working longer hours is basically pointless. Here's how to get more done—by doing lesshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/stanford-study-longer-hours-doesnt-make-you-more-productive-heres-how-to-get-more-done-by-doing-less.html
&quot;Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.&quot; -William PennWed, 20 Mar 2019 20:31:00 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic jailed for life over genocidal massacreshttps://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/bosnian-serb-leader-karadzic-jailed-for-life-over-genocidal-massacres-20190321-p5160i.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
War crimes tribunal said Karadzic's crimes in Sarajevo and Srebrenica were noted for their "sheer scale and systematic cruelty".Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:30:50 +0100SKY NEWS: Children held hostage on bus in migrant death protesthttp://news.sky.com/story/more-than-50-children-held-hostage-on-bus-in-migrant-death-protest-11671220
A bus driver in Italy abducted more than 50 children, had their hands bound and set fire to the vehicle they were in to "protest" the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:30:00 +0100CNBC: Micron's stock could drop another 15% on make-or-break earnings report: Analysthttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/microns-stock-could-drop-another-15percent-on-make-or-break-earnings-report.html
The chipmaker&#039;s upcoming earnings report will be critical in determining where its stock goes next, experts say.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:28:00 +0100The Guardian: Shamima Begum family challenge Sajid Javid over citizenship decisionhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/20/shamima-begum-family-challenge-sajid-javid-over-citizenship-decision
<p>Appeals against home secretary’s ruling have been lodged with the Special Immigration Appeals Commission</p><p>The family of Shamima Begum has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/19/isis-briton-shamima-begum-to-have-uk-citizenship-revoked">formally started court challenges</a> against the home secretary, saying Sajid Javid’s decision to strip the teenager of her citizenship is unfair because hundreds of Britons who went to Islamic State territory have been allowed back.</p><p>Begum fled her east London family for Syria in February 2015, aged 15, along with two school friends after reading terrorist propaganda online. There she married a terrorist fighter and had three children, all of whom died as infants.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/20/shamima-begum-family-challenge-sajid-javid-over-citizenship-decision">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:26:43 +0100CNBC: Justice Clarence Thomas breaks three-year silence in case of black man tried six times for murderhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/clarence-thomas-breaks-three-year-silence-at-supreme-court.html
Justice Clarence Thomas on Wednesday broke his three-year silence at the Supreme Court by asking questions during arguments in a racial discrimination case involving a black man who has faced six trials for a quadruple homicide in the 1990s.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:23:00 +0100BBC: The 'controlled chaos' of raising sextupletshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47616380
We spoke to families with quintuplets and sextuplets to find out what it's like to raise multiple babies at once.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:22:56 +0100The Hindu International: Australian PM slams Erdogan for ‘reckless’ commentshttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/australian-pm-slams-erdogan-for-reckless-comments/article26594598.ece
He had referred to a First World War campaign as anti-IslamWed, 20 Mar 2019 20:16:33 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: New Zealand, Lion Air, Mozambique: Your Thursday Briefinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/briefing/new-zealand-lion-air-mozambique.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Let us help you start your day.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:10:30 +0100NEW YORK POST: Oregon man convicted in racially motivated murder of black teenhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/oregon-man-convicted-in-racially-motivated-murder-of-black-teen/
A jury in Oregon on Tuesday convicted a white man of murdering a black teen while wearing a hat with white supremacist symbols, striking the victim with his Jeep after a dispute at a convenience store parking lot more than two years ago. The jury of four women and eight men who deliberated nearly 10...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:09:53 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Christchurch security footage shows suspect fired at people from his carhttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/51B97EjrwIw/index.html
At 1:41 p.m. on March 15, cars stream up and down Deans Avenue in the New Zealand city of Christchurch and pedestrians stroll casually along the sidewalk.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/51B97EjrwIw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:04:59 +0100CNBC: Fewer than 1 in 5 Americans think the college admissions process is fairhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/under-20percent-of-americans-think-the-college-admissions-process-is-fair.html
About 67 percent believe it &quot;favors the rich and powerful,&quot; according to a new poll.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:04:00 +0100CNBC: Kale is now one of the most pesticide-contaminated vegetableshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/kale-is-now-one-of-the-most-pesticide-contaminated-vegetables.html
Kale joins the &quot;Dirty Dozen&quot; list this year. The list of fruits and vegetables with the most pesticide contamination also includes strawberries, spinach, nectarines, apples, grapes, peaches, cherries, pears, tomatoes, celery and potatoes.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:01:00 +0100NEW YORK POST: Woman sues Harvard to get back slave photos of her familyhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/woman-sues-harvard-to-get-back-slave-photos-of-her-family/
In 1850, a Harvard professor with a twisted theory of white superiority had research photographs taken of two slaves from South Carolina &#8212; a father and daughter, stripped to the waist, who stare hauntingly into the camera. Now, 169 years later, a Connecticut woman who believes that the father and daughter, identified only as “Papa...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:00:11 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Aeroflot luggage-less rates to provide premium services for less moneyhttp://tass.com/economy/1049704
The airline plans to introduce the so-called "luggage-less" fares on flights to cities in Italy and GermanyWed, 20 Mar 2019 19:59:14 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: New Zealand foreign minister headed to Turkey to 'confront' Erdoganhttps://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/new-zealand-foreign-minister-headed-to-turkey-to-confront-erdogan-20190321-p5160x.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
Erdogan - who is seeking to drum up support for his Islamist-rooted party in local elections - said the mass shooting as part of a wider attack on Turkey.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:57:31 +0100The Guardian: Zambia bans energy drink found to contain Viagrahttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/zambia-bans-energy-drink-found-to-contain-viagra
<p>Power Natural High Energy Drink SX removed from shelves after complaint by regulator </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/zambia">Zambia</a> has banned an energy drink after it was shown to have been adulterated with Viagra, according to local authorities.</p><p>The ban followed a complaint from the country’s medicine regulator in December suggesting the Power Natural High Energy Drink SX had been spiked with erectile dysfunction drug Viagra.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/zambia-bans-energy-drink-found-to-contain-viagra">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:52:14 +0100NEW YORK POST: Driver protesting migration policies hijacks school bus, sets it ablazehttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/driver-protesting-migration-policies-hijacks-school-bus-sets-it-ablaze/
A crazed school bus driver with a criminal record hijacked a school bus full of children in Italy, threatened to kill them and set the vehicle on fire – all in a twisted effort to protest the drownings of migrants at sea, according to reports. Ousseynou Sy, 47, who is originally from Senegal but has...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:45:26 +0100The Guardian: Former Hillsborough safety officer 'was not in charge of turnstile setup'https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/20/former-hillsborough-safety-officer-was-not-in-charge-of-turnstile-setup
<p>Graham Mackrell is charged with failing to take reasonable care for the safety of 10,100 Liverpool supporters in 1989</p><p>The former safety officer for the Hillsborough football ground was not responsible for the turnstile arrangements at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final where 96 people were killed, his barrister has told his trial for a criminal safety offence.<br><br>Jason Beer QC, making his closing speech for the defence of Graham Mackrell, said the risk of overcrowding at the Leppings Lane turnstiles was not foreseeable, and the then Sheffield Wednesday club secretary did not fail to take reasonable care for Liverpool supporters’ safety.<br><br>“The evidence has fallen short,” Beer told the jury. “Mr Mackrell is not guilty of this offence.”<br><br>Mackrell, 69, is charged with failing to take reasonable care for the safety of 10,100 people with standing tickets to support Liverpool at the FA Cup match against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.</p><p>The jury at Preston crown court has heard that South Yorkshire police requirements for keeping the two clubs’ supporters segregated meant 10 turnstiles in the North Stand were not used for the match, and all 24,000 Liverpool supporters had to go through 23 turnstiles at the Leppings Lane end. The 10,100 people with tickets to stand on the terrace were allocated seven turnstiles, A-G.<br><br>Richard Matthews QC, prosecuting, has referred to the Home Office “green guide” to safety at sports grounds, which advised that turnstiles could normally process 750 people an hour, which should be sufficient for “no unduly large crowds” to build up waiting for admission.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/20/former-hillsborough-safety-officer-was-not-in-charge-of-turnstile-setup">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:43:18 +0100CNBC: Fed Chair Powell says Chinese and European economies have slowed 'substantially'https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/fed-chair-powell-says-chinese-and-european-economies-have-slowed-substantially.html
Weakening Chinese and European economies are acting as a deterrent to U.S. growth, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:42:00 +0100CNBC: Analysts expecting 'tough quarter' for Micron's earnings reporthttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/micron-reports-earnings-wednesday-and-heres-what-analysts-think.html
Wall Street analysts have low expectations for Micron&#039;s earnings report.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:40:00 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: Hungary's ruling party Fidesz suspended from Europe's centre-righthttps://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/hungary-s-ruling-party-fidesz-suspended-from-europe-s-centre-right-20190321-p5160u.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
The decision of the European People's Party came after widespread calls that Viktor Orban's party to be disciplined.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:35:06 +0100NEW YORK POST: Texas family says dog saved their lives during birthday party shootinghttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/texas-family-says-dog-saved-their-lives-during-birthday-party-shooting/
A Texas family says their beloved pooch saved their lives when he attacked a gunman who opened fire at a 13-year-old&#8217;s birthday party. Laura Martinez was hosting the bash for her youngest daughter at her Houston home on March 9 when a teen boy who was known to the family burst in with a gun....Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:31:49 +0100NEW YORK POST: Trump says ISIS will be ‘gone by tonight’https://nypost.com/2019/03/20/trump-says-isis-will-be-gone-by-tonight/
President Trump on Wednesday unveiled a new map that showed ISIS-controlled territory in Syria had been retaken on his watch as commander in chief and said its remaining stronghold would be freed &#8220;tonight.&#8221; The map, he told reporters outside the White House before departing on a visit to Ohio, showed land held by the murderous...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:30:09 +0100CNBC: Market sees nearly 50% chance of a Fed rate cut by the end of January 2020https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/market-sees-nearly-50percent-chance-of-a-fed-rate-cut-by-the-end-of-january-2020.html
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:30:00 +0100CNBC: Watch Fed Chair Jerome Powell's post-meeting press conference livehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/watch-fed-chair-jerome-powells-post-meeting-press-conference-live.html
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:27:00 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): US Federal Reserve System keeps base interest rate at 2-2.5%http://tass.com/economy/1049701
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:27:00 +0100NEW YORK POST: Trump blasts special counsel report because Mueller wasn’t electedhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/trump-blasts-special-counsel-report-because-mueller-wasnt-elected/
President Trump repeatedly suggested Wednesday that Robert Mueller’s report would be illegitimate — because Trump was voted into office and the special counsel was not. Mueller, he said, was only appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and never had to face voters. “It’s interesting that a man appointed by a deputy and he writes...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:25:54 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Bosnia divided over UN ruling on wartime leader Karadzichttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/bosnia-divided-over-un-ruling-on-wartime-leader-karadzic/2019/03/20/95d7f6b0-4b3c-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Survivors and relatives of the victims of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war have applauded life imprisonment for former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, but the country’s Serbs blasted the ruling as biasedWed, 20 Mar 2019 19:18:40 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Cyclone survivors need 'significant emergency response'http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/Iduyd4Bi5-A/index.html
Rescue workers say they are scrambling to save around 10,000 survivors of Tropical Cyclone Idai who are clinging onto rooftops in Mozambique, amid the threat of rising floods as heavy rain continues in heavily affected regions.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/Iduyd4Bi5-A" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:18:11 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Last customers being reconnected to Puerto Rico power gridhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/last-customers-being-reconnected-to-puerto-rico-power-grid/2019/03/20/81f7f794-4b3c-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Crews are preparing to shut down generators that have powered an island off Puerto Rico’s coast an island for nearly two years after Hurricane MariaWed, 20 Mar 2019 19:18:07 +0100The Guardian: Storms, cyclones and floods will only worsen as the planet warms | Lettershttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/20/storms-cyclones-and-floods-will-only-worsen-as-the-planet-warms
<strong>Craig Bennett</strong>, CEO of Friends of the Earth, says rich countries must act to make disasters such as the cyclone that hit Mozambique less likely. Meteorologist <strong>Bernadette Woods Placky</strong> describes how Climate Matters is helping to end the ‘TV news desert’ around global warming. Plus letters from <strong>Caroline Evans</strong> and <strong>Daniel Scharf</strong><p>The disaster to hit Mozambique is reported as one of the worst tropical cyclones to visit the southern hemisphere, with hundreds dead and hundreds of thousands more needing urgent assistance. I note the Guardian was the only major newspaper to lead with this story on Wednesday (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/19/cyclone-idai-worst-weather-disaster-to-hit-southern-hemisphere-mozambique-malawi" title="">Race to find survivors after deadly cyclone</a>, 20 March).</p><p>People suffering in Mozambique and neighbouring countries didn’t create the climate crisis, but they are dying from more intense weather events like Cyclone Idai.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/20/storms-cyclones-and-floods-will-only-worsen-as-the-planet-warms">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:17:52 +0100NEW YORK POST: Unvaccinated teen files lawsuit after he’s banned from school in chickenpox outbreakhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/unvaccinated-teen-files-lawsuit-after-hes-banned-from-school-in-chickenpox-outbreak/
As a practicing Catholic, the Kentucky teenager says he cannot get the vaccine because it is "derived from aborted fetal cells" which he considers "immoral, Illegal and sinful," according to his lawsuit.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:14:11 +0100WASHINGTON POST: The Latest: EU Parliament bloc suspends Hungary’s Fideszhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/the-latest-eu-parliament-bloc-suspends-hungarys-fidesz/2019/03/20/d34a2b72-4b3b-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Manfred Weber, leader of center-right EPP alliance in European Parliament, says Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party has been suspended from the grouping.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:13:14 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Austrian president may visit Russia in May — sourcehttp://tass.com/world/1049687
On January 18, Putin wrote in his message of greetings to Van der Bellen that the Austrian president’s visit to Russia would help forge friendly ties between the two countriesWed, 20 Mar 2019 19:12:18 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Eight Russian entities taken off Ukraine sanctions listhttp://tass.com/economy/1049694
Earlier on Wednesday, sanctions were imposed on 294 entities and 848 individuals involved in the construction of Crimean bridge and in the elections in Donbass republicsWed, 20 Mar 2019 19:09:35 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Report: Slain Mexican journalist’s widow targeted by spywarehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/report-slain-mexican-journalists-widow-targeted-by-spyware/2019/03/20/1f1250bc-4b3b-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
An internet watchdog group says the widow of a slain Mexican journalist was the target of an attempted spyware attack 10 days after his deathWed, 20 Mar 2019 19:08:11 +0100The Guardian: Newspapers help to radicalise far right, says UK anti-terror chiefhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/20/newspapers-help-radicalise-far-right-uk-anti-terror-chief-neil-basu
<p>Neil Basu criticises hypocrisy of mainstream news providers in wake of Christchurch attack</p><p>Britain’s counter-terrorism chief has said far-right terrorists are being radicalised by mainstream newspaper coverage, while also criticising the hypocrisy of outlets such as Mail Online, which uploaded the “manifesto” of the gunman in the Christchurch terror attack.</p><p>Neil Basu, one of Britain’s top police officers, said it was ironic that while newspapers have repeatedly criticised the likes of Facebook and Google for hosting extremist content, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/video-of-christchurch-attack-runs-on-social-media-and-news-sites">sites including the Sun and the Mirror</a> rushed to upload clips of footage filmed by the gunman as he attacked two mosques in New Zealand.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/20/newspapers-help-radicalise-far-right-uk-anti-terror-chief-neil-basu">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:05:36 +0100SKY NEWS: Fed sees no US interest rate rise this year as economy slowshttp://news.sky.com/story/fed-sees-no-us-interest-rate-rise-this-year-as-economy-slows-11671165
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Not bad for start-up that began as a beauty blog less than a decade ago.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:02:00 +0100CNBC: Here's what changed in the new Fed statementhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/heres-what-changed-in-the-march-fed-statement.html
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Manfred Weber, leader of center-right EPP alliance in European Parliament, says Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party suspendedWed, 20 Mar 2019 18:54:21 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Kazakh President Nazarbayev has resigned. Here are three things to watch.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/monkey-cage/kazakh-president-nazarbayev-has-resigned-here-are-three-things-to-watch/2019/03/20/787daf45-8ccf-46df-aa71-1dbcc4e2f950_story.html
A managed succession may be a hard promise to keep.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:52:02 +0100CNBC: Jamie Dimon: Tech giants should get prepared for 'full monty' of regulatory onslaughthttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/jamie-dimon-tech-giants-should-get-prepared-for-full-monty-of-regulatory-onslaught.html
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:52:00 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Indian Court Acquits Four Men Accused in Deadly 2007 Train Bombinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/asia/india-court-acquits-train-bombing-pakistanis.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The special court ruled that there was not enough evidence linking the four men to the attack, which killed at least 68 people, most of them Pakistanis.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:51:18 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: Shutdown and protests in Kashmir Valley after custodial deathhttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1469916/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wed, 2019-03-20 20:43</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
NEW DELHI: There have been protests and a shutdown in Indian-administered Kashmir following a custodial death, as residents warned that local anger over police brutality cannot be contained.</p>
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Rizwan Asad Pandit, 29, was declared dead on Tuesday by police after he was picked up late on Sunday night from his home.</p>
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His brother, Mubashir, said Rizwan had been taken to an interrogation center known locally as Kashmir’s torture camp.</p>
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“Police should tell us what the charges against Rizwan are and why he was killed in this manner,” Mubashir told Arab News.</p>
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“I could not look at the body of my brother when I saw it for the first time after his death. There was a cut on his forehead, his thigh was cut open, his eyes have been gouged out, his vital organs were damaged, it was such a gory sight to see.</p>
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“These security forces don’t have any human values, human compassion. Who treats a normal human being like this? What crime has Rizwan committed? I want justice for my brother. The whole of Kashmir is shocked by this inhumanity.”</p>
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A police statement said Rizwan had died in police custody and that he had been taken in for a “terror case investigation.”</p>
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Arab News contacted the inspector general of Jammu and Kashmir, S. P. Pani, but he refused to take questions related to Rizwan’s death.</p>
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India and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir, which they both claim in full but administer in part, and rebels have been fighting Indian rule for decades, demanding that Indian-controlled Kashmir be united either under Pakistani rule or established as an independent country.</p>
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According to a report from a rights group, the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, 2018 was the deadliest year of the past decade in the Kashmir Valley.</p>
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It said a total of 586 people were killed in 2018, of which 160 were civilians. The remaining numbers comprised 267 militants and 159 members of the Indian armed forces and Jammu and Kashmir police.</p>
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“In Kashmir, custodial killing has become normalized with overlapping tragedies,” Khurram Parvez, a Srinagar-based activist, told Arab News. “The incident has created anger. The issue is that when the prime minister of the country says that he has given free hand to the soldiers, this emboldens the soldier on the ground who feel that he is not accountable to anyone.”</p>
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Nobody was saying what the charges were against Rizwan, he added, or who arrested him. He asked what kind of investigation could be expected when basic information was not being provided. </p>
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“The tragedy is that all these killings and human rights violations are escalating tensions among the people. I feel it will further increase the frustration of young people in the valley.”</p>
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The valley observed a complete shutdown in response to calls for a strike by the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), an alliance of separatist leaders from the area.</p>
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There have also been protests since news of the custodial death became public.</p>
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Mubashir said that late on Sunday police came to the house and locked family members in one room while separating Rizwan from them. “Then the security personnel seized all our laptops and mobiles and took away Rizwan without telling us what the charges against him were.</p>
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“We came to know about his death only through social media. Police didn’t have the courtesy to inform us.”</p>
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Rizwan was one of six siblings and was planning to do a doctorate. He was a principal at a local private college and nurtured ambitions to be a professor.</p>
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“When you push the Kashmiris to wall, they will also push you back and react. The anger such kind of brutalities create among Kashmiris cannot be easily contained,” Mubashir said.</p>
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Dawood Riyaz lost his sight in his left eye following a pellet attack in 2017. He accused the Indian government of being “hell-bent” on destroying the young generation of Kashmiris.</p>
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“We are also human. We have the right to dissent. You cannot crush dissent with this level of brutality. Youngsters are really feeling frustrated with the regime in Delhi and its insensitivity,” he told Arab News.</p>
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Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a separatist leader and member of the JRL, said Rizwan’s death exposed the “helplessness, vulnerability, and insecurity” of Kashmiri lives even as the “impunity of authorities” kept rising.</p>
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Kashmir’s former chief minister, Omar Abdullah, tweeted: “I had hoped custodial deaths were a thing of our dark past. This is an unacceptable development and must be investigated in a transparent, time-bound manner. Exemplary punishment must be handed out to the killers of this young man.”</p>
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<p>Offer of visiting fellowship to controversial professor resulted in backlash from faculty and students</p><p>Cambridge University has rescinded its offer of a visiting fellowship to Jordan Peterson, the self-styled “professor against political correctness”, after a backlash from faculty and students.</p><p>Peterson, a psychology professor from Toronto who has courted controversy for his views on transgender rights, gender and race, announced on Monday via his YouTube channel that he was joining Cambridge for two months.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/20/cambridge-university-rescinds-jordan-peterson-invitation">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:41:41 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: How Europe is forcing Google to changehttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/j9dNgYRIxWI/index.html
Europe has gone after Google with tough new regulations, court battles and massive antitrust fines, forcing the company to change how it does business in the lucrative market.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/j9dNgYRIxWI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:36:52 +0100The Guardian: French customs strike continues to cause cross-channel travel chaoshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/french-customs-strike-continues-to-cause-cross-channel-travel-chaos
<p>No end in sight for Eurostar delays as officials carry out more rigorous checks to highlight lack of Brexit preparations</p><p>A work-to-rule strike by French customs officers warning they are not ready for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/eu-referendum">Brexit</a> is likely to stretch into next week and cause further chaos on Eurostar trains and channel ports.</p><p>At Gare du Nord in Paris on Wednesday, hundreds of passengers queued in lines stretching the full length of the station, with an estimated six-hour wait for trains to the UK. Eurostar has encouraged people not to travel at all between Paris and London this week if they could avoid it.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/french-customs-strike-continues-to-cause-cross-channel-travel-chaos">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:36:26 +0100The Guardian: Mother behind YouTube channel accused of abusing her adopted childrenhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/20/youtube-fantastic-adventures-machelle-hackney-arrested-abuse-adopted-children
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<p>Twenty-two-year-old still wearing handcuffs used by officers in January</p><p>The body of a young man who fled police more than two months ago has been pulled from the bottom of a river at a beauty spot still wearing handcuffs.</p><p>Hampshire constabulary has launched an investigation into the death of the 22-year-old, who is believed to have drowned while on the run from police.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/20/body-of-man-who-fled-police-found-in-southampton-river">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:30:20 +0100BBC: President Trump shows map of 'IS defeat'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47646183
President Trump said it highlights how much territory the Islamic State group has lost since his election.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:29:03 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russia vows response to Australia’s sanctions imposed over Kerch Strait incidenthttp://tass.com/politics/1049689
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:28:25 +0100The Guardian: Rare super worm moon will loom large as it coincides with equinoxhttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/20/rare-super-worm-moon-will-loom-large-as-it-coincides-with-equinox
<p>Phenomenon last occurred in spring 1905 and won’t happen again until the year 2144</p><p>Those gazing up into the sky on Wednesday night are set to witness an unusual event: a super worm moon that coincides with the equinox.</p><p>It will be the third time this year a full moon has occurred near to the moon’s closest approach to the Earth – making it a supermoon – and will be the last such event in 2019. Those venturing out can expect to see the moon looming larger than usual in the night sky.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/20/rare-super-worm-moon-will-loom-large-as-it-coincides-with-equinox">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:20:53 +0100CNBC: Trump says China tariffs could remain for a 'substantial period of time' as trade deal developshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/trump-says-china-tariffs-could-stay-in-place-amid-trade-deal-talks.html
Trump&#039;s comments come amid conflicting reports about how close the world&#039;s two largest economies are to reaching a deal, and just what China is willing to concede.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:20:00 +0100NEW YORK POST: Woman arrested after elderly dad found living with hundreds of ratshttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/woman-arrested-after-elderly-dad-found-living-with-hundreds-of-rats/
CALIFORNIA — A Southern California woman is in custody after deputies discovered her 96-year-old father and multiple pets living in a home stinking of feces and infested with up to 700 rats, authorities said Tuesday. Catherine Ann Vandermaesen, 65, was arrested on suspicion of felony elder abuse and misdemeanor animal neglect, the Ventura County Sheriff&#8217;s...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:18:39 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: India scion Priyanka Gandhi lambasts Modi on home turfhttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1469906/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wed, 2019-03-20 20:05</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
VARANASI, INDIA: The newest star in India's Nehru-Gandhi dynasty wrapped up a pre-election boat tour along the Ganges river on Wednesday, disembarking in Narendra Modi's home constituency to attack the prime minister's record.<br />
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, sister of Rahul Gandhi who wants to unseat Modi in elections starting on April 11, announced her long-awaited entry into politics in January, bolstering the hopes of the opposition Congress party, which has been dominated by her family for generations.<br />
Their father was Rajiv Gandhi, assassinated in 1991, their grandmother Indira Gandhi, killed by her Sikh bodyguards in 1984, and their great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister.<br />
Arriving after her three-day cruise in Varanasi, the northern holy city famous for its riverside cremations where Modi stood for election in 2014, Priyanka said people must stand up against his "anti-people" policies.<br />
"You can bring about a change. You must raise your voice for a new government who will make policies for you and understand your problems," the 47-year-old said.<br />
"The farmers of this country are suffering. He is neck-deep in debt and is committing suicide. He does not get seeds and fertilisers on time, he is not getting the right price for his produce," she added.<br />
The opposition has been targeting Modi's right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over a lack of jobs, slowing growth and the desperate situation of farmers in the lead-up to the gargantuan election which ends May 19.<br />
The centre-left Congress party, which has ruled India for about half a century since the country became independent in 1947, was thrashed by the BJP five years ago, with Modi promising to create jobs, stamp out corruption, and bring "Achhe Din" ("Good Days").<br />
Modi's party however has been boosted after India and arch-rival Pakistan lurched alarmingly close to war last month following a suicide bombing in Kashmir that killed 40 Indian troops.<br />
Priyanka, who for years resisted calls to enter politics, launched her campaign in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Monday, hopping on to a motorboat on the Ganges river, which is considered sacred by the country's majority Hindu community.<br />
The state is a part of the Hindi "cow belt" heartland of some 475 million people — nearly as many as the United States, Canada and Mexico combined — where the BJP has its core support base.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.arabnews.com/sites/default/files/2019/03/20/1497106-1706301591.jpg" width="900" height="530" alt="" title="Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Congress general secretary for eastern Uttar Pradesh, gestures to supporters as she returns after visit Kashi Vishwanath temple, during her three day boat trip from Allahabad to Varanasi along the Ganges river as part of the election campaign, in Varanasi on March 20, 2019. (AFP)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/india-election">India election</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/priyanka-gandhi-vadra">Priyanka Gandhi Vadra</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/narendra-modi">Narendra Modi</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/varanasi">Varanasi</a></div></div></div> Battle lines drawn as Congress campaigns on Modi’s home turfIndian opposition party leader Rahul Gandhi addresses packed UAE stadiumWed, 20 Mar 2019 18:18:23 +0100NEW YORK POST: Baby delivered after mother was fatally shot has diedhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/baby-delivered-after-mother-was-fatally-shot-has-died/
A Kentucky coroner says a newborn girl delivered following the fatal shooting of her pregnant mother has died after just four days.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:18:10 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Senate refuses to lift Salvini’s immunity in migrant casehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/senate-refuses-to-lift-salvinis-immunity-in-migrant-case/2019/03/20/01effe64-4b34-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Italy’s Senate refused Wednesday to lift Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s immunity to face possible charges for refusing to allow migrants aboard an Italian coast guard ship to disembark in a Sicilian portWed, 20 Mar 2019 18:17:17 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Ukraine introduces sanctions against Russian majorshttp://tass.com/economy/1049682
In particular, sanctions were extended against Volga Group investment company, Strointransgaz construction company, Power Machines, and othersWed, 20 Mar 2019 18:16:48 +0100Voice of Europe: Italian Authorities Investigate NGOhttps://www.voanews.com/a/italian-authorities-investigate-ngo/4839593.html
Italian authorities have seized Italian charity ship Mare Jonio and questioned the crew, which might have defied an Interior Ministry order that closes all ports to vessels carrying rescued migrants.
The Mare Jonio is docked and empty in the port of Lampedusa, confiscated by authorities after its crew was placed under investigation by Sicilian magistrates for allegedly favoring illegal immigration. The 49 migrants who were on board, including 12 minors, disembarked in Lampedusa late Tuesday. They were given food, water and fresh clothing two days after their rescue off the Libyan coast.
Authorities first questioned the owner and captain of the vessel Tuesday night and further questioning of the crew was taking place Wednesday to reconstruct the entire rescue operation in Libyan waters and the requests made for the migrants to disembark in a safe port. Owner Beppe Caccia said he had asked to see the formal written request banning the vessel from entering Italian waters, but none was made available.
Alessandra Sciurba, the spokesperson for NGO Mediterranea, which runs the vessel, said there was "no order to take the migrants to Libya, not by the Libyans or by the Italians."
Italian authorities said the Mare Jonio had not been granted permission to enter the island’s port. The captain of the boat said he had decided to push forward, citing security reasons and rough seas. The NGO said the migrants had been saved from either drowning or from being returned to the "horror from which they were fleeing."
The mayor of Lampedusa, Salvatore Martello, said that with the law of the sea, if a vessel is flying an Italian flag, that boat must be allowed into an Italian port.
The rescued migrants are in the Lampedusa reception center waiting to be told where they will be transferred next. The last arrival of migrants on the island took place three weeks ago. Arrivals have noticeably decreased since Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini started enforcing a closed port policy last year.
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:12:19 +0100The Hindu International: Pakistan prof. killed over mixed-gender receptionhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pakistan-prof-killed-over-mixed-gender-reception/article26593673.ece
A Pakistani student was arrested on Wednesday after stabbing his professor to death for organising a mixed-gender reception at a government college, tWed, 20 Mar 2019 18:10:21 +0100BBC: 'Obscene' beer label causes row in Russiahttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-47633307
A Russian brewery is under fire for its sado-masochistic bottle label.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:08:56 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Confusion, Then Prayer, in Cockpit of Doomed Lion Air Jethttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/asia/lion-air-crash-boeing.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Indonesian investigators described the sounds emanating from the cockpit as the flight crew fought to take control of a plane that seemed almost magnetically propelled toward earth.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:08:38 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Confusion, Then Prayer, in Cockpit of Doomed Lion Air Jethttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/asia/lion-air-cockpit-boeing.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Indonesian investigators described the sounds emanating from the cockpit as the flight crew fought to take control of a plane that seemed almost magnetically propelled toward earth.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:08:38 +0100The Hindu International: UAE deports man for praising NZ mosque attackhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/uae-deports-man-for-praising-nz-mosque-attack/article26593658.ece
An employee at a Dubai-based security company was fired and deported for celebrating the deadly New Zealand mosque attacks under a fake identity on FaWed, 20 Mar 2019 18:07:08 +0100The Hindu International: 40 animals to be rescued from Gaza zoohttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/40-animals-to-be-rescued-from-gaza-zoo/article26593600.ece
For far too long, they have had to live under dreadful conditions: Four PawsWed, 20 Mar 2019 18:05:19 +0100The Hindu International: Pakistan summons Indian envoy over Samjhauta blast case acquittalshttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pakistan-summons-indian-envoy-over-samjhauta-blast-case-acquittals/article26593647.ece
Pakistan on Wednesday summoned the Indian High Commissioner Ajay Bisaria to lodge a protest against the acquittal of all four accused, including AseeWed, 20 Mar 2019 18:05:02 +0100CNBC: Disney's deal for Fox will be successful if it convinces investors to value it like Netflixhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/disney-fox-deal-success-if-valuation-maps-to-netflix.html
Bob Iger&#039;s $71 billion bet on Fox is all about getting investors to value Disney more like Netflix.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:05:00 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Ukraine’s Election Commission denies registration to Russian members of OSCE missionhttp://tass.com/world/1049683
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:03:49 +0100The Guardian: 'Stop child deaths': medical bodies urge crisis response to wave of Indigenous suicidehttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/stop-child-deaths-medical-bodies-urge-crisis-response-to-wave-of-indigenous-suicide
<p>Medical organisations want urgent action after four Indigenous suicides in Queensland last week and release of WA report</p><p>Three of the country’s most powerful medical organisations are pleading with the federal government to take urgent action to stop the “unspeakable tragedy” of Indigenous youth suicide, following another four Indigenous people taking their own lives <a href="https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2019/03/18/four-more-indigenous-suicides-renew-calls-national-plan1">in Queensland</a> last week, and in the wake of a major report into child suicides in Western Australia.</p><p>The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (Naccho) want an “immediate investment in Aboriginal-led mental health and wellbeing services needed to stop child deaths”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/21/stop-child-deaths-medical-bodies-urge-crisis-response-to-wave-of-indigenous-suicide">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:00:13 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): UN disarmament mechanism plagued by over-politicization, says Russia’s top diplomathttp://tass.com/politics/1049664
At the same time, according to Sergey Lavrov, the current complications do not mean that the mechanism that was established 40 years ago is "bad as it is and needs dismantling"Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:58:27 +0100CNBC: Medicare won't cover this key expense, and it's eating into retirees' walletshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/medicare-wont-cover-this-key-expense-that-eats-into-retirees-wallets.html
Medicare generally doesn&#039;t cover dental care. Comprehensive care, including fillings, dentures and crowns, could destroy retirees&#039; budgets. What you need to know.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:51:00 +0100The Hindu International: Pompeo, in Kuwait, again urges resolution to Gulf crisishttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pompeo-in-kuwait-again-urges-resolution-to-gulf-crisis/article26593486.ece
‘We are working to resolve the rift between those countries’Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:50:58 +0100Voice of Europe: Turkey's Erdogan: 'No Difference' Between New Zealand Killer, IS Terroristshttps://www.voanews.com/a/turkey-s-erdogan-no-difference-between-new-zealand-killer-islamic-state-terrorists/4839565.html
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says last Friday's massacre at two New Zealand mosques should in no way be linked to Christianity and that the gunman is no different from Islamic State terrorists.
"I categorically reject any attempt to associate last week's terrorist attacks with the teachings, morals or maxims of Christianity," the Muslim politician wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday by The Washington Post. "If anything, what happened in New Zealand was the toxic product of ignorance and hate."
Authorities say Brenton Tarrant, an Australian white supremacist suspected of killing 50 people in the mosques in the city of Christchurch, seemed keenly interested in Islam and its historical wars with Christianity.
They say that months before the attack, he traveled to multiple European sites of battles with the Ottoman Empire, which preceded modern day Turkey. The names of several Christian-Muslim battles in eastern Europe between the 14th and 20th centuries were displayed on his rifle magazines, according to authorities. And in his online manifesto, Tarrant vilified immigrants to Western countries and clamored for revenge against Muslims.
Erdogan accused the 28-year-old Tarrant, who visited Turkey twice in 2016, of trying to "legitimize his twisted views by distorting world history and the Christian faith." Erdogan added, "He sought to plant seeds of hate among fellow humans."
The Turkish president said Tarrant and IS shared a common objective: the conquest of the Turkish city of Istanbul. IS, he wrote, called for the "reconquest" of Istanbul — much like the Christchurch attacker, who pledged in his manifesto to make the city "rightfully christian owned once more."
"In this regard, we must establish that there is absolutely no difference between the murderer who killed innocent people in New Zealand and those who have carried out terrorist acts in Turkey, France, Indonesia and elsewhere," Erdogan said.
Erdogan said he and other Muslim leaders vowed to counter "any attempt by terrorists to hijack our religion" following IS attacks but "Islamophobia and xenophobia, among other practices incompatible with liberal values, were met with silence in Europe and other parts of the Western world. We cannot afford to allow this again."
Erdogan said Western countries now have "certain responsibilities" after the Christchurch massacre, calling on them to "reject the normalization of racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia, which has been on the rise in recent years."
He applauded New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for urging Western leaders to "embrace Muslims living in their respective countries."Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:50:53 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russia’s Alrosa sells diamonds worth $14.6 mln at Hong Kong auctionshttp://tass.com/economy/1049675
Alrosa sold 101 diamonds with the total weight of 1,829 caratsWed, 20 Mar 2019 17:46:46 +0100NEW YORK POST: Nancy Pelosi smacks down de Blasio’s 2020 bidhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/nancy-pelosi-smacks-down-de-blasios-2020-bid/
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered a searing response Wednesday when asked about Mayor de Blasio&#8217;s nascent presidential campaign — as the mayor stood nearby. “I always say when somebody is serious about running I’ll be serious about commenting on it,” she said. &#8220;Well handled,&#8221; responded the mayor, trying to play down the slap. The two...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:45:54 +0100BBC: Christchurch shootings: The Briton who survived mosque attackhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47644703
Nathan Smith says he doesn't know how he survived the Al Noor mosque attack in Christchurch.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:44:18 +0100CNBC: It's sure starting to look like Apple AirPower will launch this weekhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/apple-airpower-release-expected-this-week.html
AirPods finally support wireless charging. With Apple announcing new products each day this week, it certainly seems like Apple AirPower will launch, too.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:42:00 +0100The Guardian: Activists project 'refugees welcome' on Acropolis to show crisis not overhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/activists-project-refugees-welcome-on-acropolis-to-show-crisis-not-over
<p>Amnesty says calling migration deal successful ‘flies in face of reality’ given plight of people trapped on Greek islands</p><p>Activists have marked the third anniversary of a controversial migration deal between the EU and Turkey by projecting a slogan on to the walls of the Acropolis.</p><p>Two weeks after Brussels <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/06/eu-declares-migration-crisis-over-hits-out-fake-news-european-commission">claimed the migration crisis was </a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/06/eu-declares-migration-crisis-over-hits-out-fake-news-european-commission">over</a>, Amnesty International projected the words “humanity first: refugees are welcome” on to the ancient citadel above Athens to highlight the plight of thousands of people trapped on Greek islands as a result of the accord.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/activists-project-refugees-welcome-on-acropolis-to-show-crisis-not-over">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:37:47 +0100BBC: Auschwitz visitors urged not to balance on railway tracks for photoshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47644553
The memorial that preserves the death camp site urges people to avoid disrespectful photos.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:37:24 +0100The Guardian: From Serial to Bryan Singer: why Amy Berg is the documentarian to fearhttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/20/serial-adnan-syed-documentary-amy-berg-bryan-singer
<p>She has tackled injustice and abuse in the film industry and the Catholic church. The Oscar-nominated director reveals why she is telling the shocking story hit podcast Serial failed to cover</p><p>The Maryland court of appeals this month <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/09/maryland-court-denies-new-trial-adnan-syed-serial-murder-case">overturned a </a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/09/maryland-court-denies-new-trial-adnan-syed-serial-murder-case"> decision</a> to grant Adnan Syed a new trial for the murder of his former girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. The story of Syed’s conviction in 2000 was brought to the world’s attention by the podcast <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/serial">Serial</a>, which launched in October 2014. Its presenter Sarah Koenig examined the evidence against Syed, and steadily built a case that his conviction might have been unsound, though she kept listeners guessing as to her theories about his guilt or innocence until the very end.</p><p>Serial <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/08/serial-review-greatest-murder-mystery-ever-hear">was a phenomenon</a> and an unprecedented hit. In 2017, the producers revealed that its episodes had been downloaded over 175m times. Its release coincided with the beginning of the appeals process for Syed, and the decision to deny him a new trial appears to have blindsided everyone involved.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/20/serial-adnan-syed-documentary-amy-berg-bryan-singer">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:37:07 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: Kazakhstan renames capital after retiring leader Nazarbayev as new president Tokayev takes officehttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1469891/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Christopher RICKLETON | AFP</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553097570114457800</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wed, 2019-03-20 15:22</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
ALMATY: Kazakhstan’s new president was sworn in Wednesday following the shock resignation of the country’s long-time ruler and in his first official act renamed the capital after his predecessor.<br />
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took office in a pomp-filled ceremony less than 24 hours after Nursultan Nazarbayev, the only leader an independent Kazakhstan had ever known, suddenly announced he was stepping down.<br />
Tokayev immediately proposed changing the name of the Central Asian nation’s capital from Astana to Nursultan, or “Sultan of Light” in Kazakh, and parliament approved the change within hours.<br />
The senate also appointed Nazarbayev’s eldest daughter Dariga Nazarbayeva as speaker, setting her up as a potential contender to succeed her father.<br />
Tokayev, 65, will serve out the rest of Nazarbayev’s mandate until elections due in April next year, though the former president retains significant powers in the country he ruled for nearly three decades.<br />
Tokayev told lawmakers that Nazarbayev had “shown wisdom” by deciding to step down, a rare move in ex-Soviet Central Asia where other leaders have hung on to power until death.<br />
“Yesterday the world witnessed a historic event,” Tokayev said, hailing Nazarbayev as a visionary reformer.<br />
“The results of an independent Kazakhstan are there for all to see,” he added.<br />
Nazarbayev changed the capital from Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty to Astana in 1997, transforming it from a minor provincial town into a futuristic city of skyscrapers rising from the steppes.<br />
Its name meant “capital” in Kazakh and there had long been speculation of a renaming after the leader who shaped it.<br />
The city is central to government propaganda highlighting the achievements of Nazarbayev’s reign and his journey to build it was recently the subject of a state-funded film, “Leader’s Path: Astana.”<br />
Nazarbayev, 78, ruled Kazakhstan since before it gained independence with the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.<br />
He steered the country through a major transformation, developing huge energy reserves and boosting its international influence, but was accused of cracking down on dissent and tolerating little opposition.<br />
Nazarbayev will continue to enjoy significant powers thanks to his constitutional status as “Leader of the Nation,” life-time position as chief of the security council and head of the ruling Nur Otan party.<br />
Tokayev appeared to be in pole position to take over in the long term until senators voted shortly after his swearing-in to name Dariga Nazarbayeva, 55, as their new chief.<br />
She is the most politically prominent of Nazarbayev’s three children and has long been mooted as a potential successor.<br />
Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister from 2015 to 2016, Nazarbayeva has significant influence over the media.<br />
Analysts said it was too early to declare a clear frontrunner to become the next elected president, with the recently named prime minister, 53-year-old Askar Mamin, another possible contender.<br />
Tokayev, the interim president, has a strong diplomatic record dating back to the Soviet period and has twice been foreign minister.<br />
This should go some way to reassuring Kazakhstan’s major partners including China, the European Union, Russia and the United States that the move will not threaten key relationships.<br />
Tokayev “is a safe pair of hands, he is a loyal presidential lieutenant,” said Kate Mallinson, a Russia and Eurasia expert at the London-based Chatham House think-tank.<br />
Kazakhstan-based analyst Dosym Satpayev described Tokayev as a “heavyweight” but said he lacked popular appeal.<br />
As for Kazakh society’s reaction to Dariga Nazarbayeva, it “would be mixed to say the least,” Satpayev said.<br />
“A candidate from the family would be controversial and Dariga does not speak the state language, Kazakh, as well as her father,” he said.<br />
Satpayev also pointed to another Nazarbayev relative — nephew Samat Abish, a high-ranking security official who rarely appears in public — as a potential contender from inside the family circle.<br />
“This would be something like a Putin scenario, wherein a connected figure appears from the shadows at the last moment,” Satpayev said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s sudden emergence following Boris Yeltsin’s sudden retirement in 1999.<br />
The new leader will need to tackle growing discontent over falling living standards after Kazakhstan’s economy was hit by the 2014 drop in oil prices and western sanctions against Russia, a key trading partner.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.arabnews.com/sites/default/files/2019/03/20/1497086-427416031.jpg" width="1001" height="753" alt="" title="Acting President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev takes part in a swearing-in ceremony during a joint session of the houses of parliament in Astana, Kazakhstan March 20, 2019. (Reuters)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/world">World</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/nursultan-nazarbayev">Nursultan Nazarbayev</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/tokayev">Tokayev</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/asia">Asia</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/astana">Astana</a></div></div></div> Azer News: Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan to create financial consortium for new railwayKazakhstan’s Nazarbayev secures crushing election winWed, 20 Mar 2019 17:34:06 +0100CNBC: Stocks making the biggest moves midday: FedEx, Viacom, Tencent Musichttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/stocks-making-the-biggest-moves-midday-fedex-viacom-tencent-music.html
Names on the move ahead of the open.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:34:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: The Latest: Pompeo visit gives boost to Israel PMhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-latest-pompeo-visit-gives-boost-to-israel-pm/2019/03/20/9e5d618a-4b2d-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has given Israel’s leader a welcome boost at the height of a tight re-election campaignWed, 20 Mar 2019 17:31:32 +0100Voice of Europe: BMW Warns Profits Will Fall Due to Costs, Trade Uncertaintyhttps://www.voanews.com/a/bmw-warns-profits-will-fall-due-to-costs-trade-uncertainty/4839608.html
German automaker BMW said Wednesday that profits in 2019 would be “well below” last year’s and that it planned to cut 12 billion euros ($13.6 billion) in costs by the end of 2022 to offset spending on new technology.
The company said profits would be eroded by higher raw materials prices, the costs of compliance with tougher emissions requirements and unfavorable shifts in currency exchange rates.
The Munich-based automaker also faces increased uncertainty due to international trade conflicts that could lead to higher tariffs.
The company forecast a profit margin of 6 to 8 percent for its automotive business, short of the long-term strategic target of 8 to 10 percent, which it said still “remains the ambition” for the company given “a stable business environment.”
BMW said it had no plans for layoffs even as it outlined cost saving measures that include dropping half of its engine variants as it seeks to reduce product complexity. The BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce brands are to get a single sales division.
Chief Financial Officer Nicolas Peter said that given the headwinds to earnings, “we began to introduce countermeasures at an early stage and have taken a number of far-reaching decisions.”
The company said the measures were needed “to offset the ongoing high level of upfront expenditure required to embrace the mobility of the future.”
BMW shares were down 4.9 percent to 72.02 euros in Frankfurt.
Automakers around the world have faced heavy up-front costs for new technologies expected to change how people get from one place to another in the next decade. Those include electric cars and renting cars through smartphone apps. Yet the returns from such investments remain uncertain and auto companies face competition from tech firms such as Uber and Waymo.
BMW made 7.2 billion euros ($8.2 billion) in net profit last year, down 17 percent from 2017, when it booked a gain of $1 billion from U.S. tax changes. The company faced headwinds from increased tariffs on vehicles exported to China from the United States. It also suffered from turmoil on the German auto market when companies faced bottlenecks getting cars certified for new emissions rules.
BMW faces uncertainty from U.S.-China trade tensions that could result in new tariffs if talks do not result in an agreement. U.S. President Donald Trump has also threatened to impose auto import tariffs that would hit EU automakers, but has held off for now. BMW could also suffer disruption if Britain leaves the European Union without a negotiated departure agreement to address trade issues.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:31:02 +0100NEW YORK POST: Trump says Benjamin Netanyahu will pay the White House a visithttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/trump-says-benjamin-netanyahu-will-pay-the-white-house-a-visit/
Team Trump announced Wednesday that embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would pay a short visit to the White House next week prior to elections in Israel early next month. President Trump will welcome Netanyahu on Monday and Tuesday, according to the press secretary’s announcement. Trump and the PM will discuss the Middle East during...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:30:25 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Theresa May asks the EU for a short delay to Brexithttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/n3n7xyHGLoQ/index.html
British Prime Minister Theresa May has formally requested a delay to the country's departure from the European Union, on another day of drama and confusion over her government's Brexit plan.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/n3n7xyHGLoQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:28:25 +0100The Guardian: Thieves mock Trump by stealing border razor wire to protect homes in Mexicohttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/20/mexico-trump-border-wall-tijuana
<p>Fifteen people reportedly arrested for robbing concertina wire installed by US authorities and selling it to locals in Tijuana</p><p>Mexicans are building fences, and America has already paid for them.</p><p>In recent months, US authorities have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/13/migrant-caravan-latest-us-border-security-toughened">unrolled miles of razor wire</a> along the border with Mexico as part of efforts to “harden” the frontier and deter migrants from entering America illegally.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/20/mexico-trump-border-wall-tijuana">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:26:19 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russian figure skater Zagitova leads after short program at World Championship in Japanhttp://tass.com/sport/1049676
The panel of jurors awarded Zagitova with 82.08 points for her short programWed, 20 Mar 2019 17:26:09 +0100BBC: Italian driver hijacks and torches school bus full of childrenhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47642298
Police helped children escape through smashed windows as the suspect set the bus alight.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:23:03 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Brexit agreement negotiated by EU and U.K. government won’t be reopened, EU chief Tusk sayshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/brexit-agreement-negotiated-by-eu-and-uk-government-wont-be-reopened-eu-chief-tusk-says/2019/03/20/e75d18c8-4b2b-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Brexit agreement negotiated by EU and U.K. government won’t be reopened, EU chief Tusk saysWed, 20 Mar 2019 17:19:15 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: Driver abducts schoolchildren in Italy, sets bus on firehttps://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/driver-abducts-schoolchildren-in-italy-sets-bus-on-fire-20190321-p5160m.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
A bus driver in northern Italy abducted 51 children and their chaperones on Wednesday, ordering the children's hands to be bound and threatening them with death during the drive, before setting the vehicle on fire when he was stopped by a Carabinieri blockade.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:18:22 +0100CNBC: Chart analysts like chances for a big rally after S&P 500 forms 'inverse head-and-shoulders'https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/chart-analysts-like-chances-for-a-big-rally-after-sp-500-forms-inverse-head-and-shoulders.html
Stocks are on a roll this year and a chart pattern in the S&amp;P 500 could signal further gains for Wall Street.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:18:00 +0100CNBC: Patriots owner Robert Kraft will reject deal to drop prostitution solicitation charges: Reporthttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/robert-kraft-will-reject-deal-to-drop-prostitution-solicitation-case.html
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft reportedly will reject a deal that could lead prosecutors to drop criminal charges against him for allegedly soliciting prostitution.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:16:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: EU chief conditions Brexit extension on UK Parliament backing government’s Brexit dealhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/eu-chief-conditions-brexit-extension-on-uk-parliament-backing-governments-brexit-deal/2019/03/20/68c9bef8-4b2b-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
EU chief conditions Brexit extension on UK Parliament backing government’s Brexit dealWed, 20 Mar 2019 17:15:43 +0100BBC: Christchurch shooting: Australia's moment of hate speech reckoninghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-47620391
Australians question whether the tone of racial rhetoric spurred the man accused of the Christchurch attacks.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:15:19 +0100NEW YORK POST: Steve King couldn’t answer question about ‘white society’ being ‘superior’https://nypost.com/2019/03/20/steve-king-couldnt-answer-question-about-white-society-being-superior/
Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King — who has a history of making racially inflammatory comments — couldn’t come up with an answer when asked whether “a white society is superior to a nonwhite society” during a town hall meeting in the Hawkeye State. “I don’t have an answer for that. That’s so hypothetical,” King said...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:14:42 +0100The Guardian: Pathetic, incoherent, chaotic: Europe's verdict on Brexit shambleshttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/20/pathetic-incoherent-chaotic-europes-verdict-on-brexit-shambles
<p>UK’s reputation for diplomacy, pragmatism and self-restraint has all but gone, say politicians and officials across EU</p><p>When he started out as a young civil servant, said Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, a German MP from the liberal Free Democratic party, Britain was “always held up as a model of good diplomacy, of pragmatism and of self-restraint”.</p><p>That was then. Now, with the UK’s scheduled exit barely a week away and still no clarity in sight, “No one would sign up to that view,” Lambsdorff said. “Now, the UK is seen as neither pragmatic, self-restrained, nor a model.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/20/pathetic-incoherent-chaotic-europes-verdict-on-brexit-shambles">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:13:56 +0100The Guardian: Woman entered 'Miss Hitler' contest to gain female recruitshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/woman-entered-miss-hitler-contest-to-gain-female-recruits
<p>Alice Cutter, 22, won National Action competition under alias ‘Buchenwald princess’</p><p>A neo-Nazi terror suspect entered a “Miss Hitler” beauty contest in a bid to recruit female members to a far-right extremist group, a court has heard.</p><p>Alice Cutter, 22, is alleged to have won the National Action competition using the nickname Buchenwald princess, in reference to the Nazi death camp.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/woman-entered-miss-hitler-contest-to-gain-female-recruits">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:13:08 +0100CNBC: This book about how to get rich sold more than 32 million copies—here are the 5 key lessons to learnhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/5-lessons-on-how-to-get-rich-from-the-best-selling-personal-finance-book-that-sold-more-than-32-million-copies.html
&quot;The No. 1 expense for most people is taxes.&quot;Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:11:00 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: Trump to host Israel's Netanyahu next week, says White Househttps://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-to-host-israel-s-netanyahu-next-week-says-white-house-20190321-p5160k.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
US President Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House next Monday and Tuesday, the White House said.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:10:21 +0100CNBC: The last time Netflix did this, it rallied 95 percenthttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/the-last-time-netflix-did-this-it-rallied-95-percent.html
Netflix is set to gain a new competitor next week when Apple will reportedly unveil its streaming platform. The charts already point to a winner in the streaming battles.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:10:00 +0100NEW YORK POST: Man confessed to strangling girlfriend, said he ‘couldn’t stop’: affidavithttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/man-confessed-to-relatives-that-he-strangled-girlfriend-said-he-couldnt-stop-affidavit/
A Maine man confessed to killing his longtime girlfriend during phone calls to his daughter and ex-wife, telling them he started strangling the woman and just “couldn’t stop,” police said. Gregory Vance, 61, of Portland, remains held without bail after being charged with murder in the death of Patricia Grassi, 59, whose body was found...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:08:53 +0100Voice of Europe: Bosnian Serb War Criminal Appeals Sentence, Ends Up With More Time in Prisonhttps://www.voanews.com/a/bosnian-serb-war-criminal-appeals-sentence-ends-up-with-more-time-in-prison/4839529.html
A United Nations court has increased the sentence to life in prison for convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Radovan Karadzic, after hearing his appeal of the original sentence.
Karadzic, 73, was in court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday appealing his original sentence of 40 years for organizing mass killings in the Bosnian War, which lasted from 1992 to 1995. He was also appealing his 2016 convictions of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, for ordering the July 1995 mass killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Bosnia's Srebrenica region.
The court not only upheld his convictions, but lengthened his sentence. The judge said the 2016 court was wrong to limit his sentence to 40 years, given the "sheer scale and systematic cruelty" of the crimes.
The Associated Press reports that at the pronouncement of the sentence, observers in the public gallery broke into applause. The decision was also broadcast at a memorial in Srebrenica, where friends and family of the victims gathered to watch the proceedings.
Another former Bosnian Serb commander, Ratko Mladic, is also waiting for an appeals decision on his convictions for genocide and war crimes.
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:07:45 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Leadership lessons from sailing's top skippershttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/qan1oQveXSo/index.html
Leadership lessons pop up in all aspects of life but skippering a sailing yacht offers a glimpse of the deep end.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/qan1oQveXSo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:02:40 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: Afghanistan presidential election postponed to Septemberhttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1469886/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Reuters</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553097387774440900</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wed, 2019-03-20 15:43</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
KABUL: Afghanistan’s presidential election has been postponed by two months to Sept. 28, as authorities try to iron out problems with the voting process, the election board said on Wednesday.<br />
The election was pushed back for the second time to allow time for reforms to the voting system, Independent Election Commission spokesman Abdul Aziz Ibrahimi said.<br />
It was originally scheduled for April but was delayed to July 20 due to concerns about winter conditions and security.<br />
Afghanistan’s parliamentary election took place in autumn after months of wrangling and delay.<br />
That vote was marred by accusations of widespread fraud including ballot-stuffing, technical problems with biometric registration equipment, and attacks by Taliban insurgents.<br />
President Ashraf Ghani, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and former national security adviser Mohammad Haneef Atmar are among the declared candidates for the presidential election.<br />
It is unclear how recurring peace talks between US officials and the Taliban may affect the election.<br />
The Taliban has so far refused to talk with the Ghani government, which it considers illegitimate.</p>
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The corvettes’ crews practiced assignments to search for and track a notional enemy’s submarines and performed simulated torpedo fire and carried out training minelaying operationsWed, 20 Mar 2019 16:57:21 +0100CNBC: Trump wants to use a big banking settlement to help build his border wallhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/trump-wants-to-use-a-big-banking-settlement-to-help-build-the-wall.html
The White House is targeting a windfall from an international banking scandal to help pay for the border wall, according to an administration official.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:52:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: As Zika danger wanes, travel warnings are eased for pregnant womenhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/03/20/zika-danger-wanes-travel-warnings-are-eased-pregnant-women/
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention downgraded its warning against travel to 100 countries and regions where the virus was reported. The World Health Organization will ease its travel restrictions soon.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:44:18 +0100The Guardian: Lion Air pilots were looking at handbook when plane crashedhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/lion-air-pilots-were-looking-at-handbook-when-plane-crashed
<p>Sources say flight crew of Indonesian jet tried to find procedure to halt dive</p><p>The pilots of a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max urgently looked through a handbook to understand why the jet was lurching downwards in the final minutes before it hit the water, killing all 189 people on board, three people with knowledge of the cockpit voice recorder contents said.</p><p>The investigation into the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/29/lion-air-plane-lost-contact-indonesia-flight-jt610-jakarta">crash last October</a> has taken on new relevance as the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other regulators grounded the model last week after a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/10/ethiopian-airlines-says-kenya-flight-with-157-onboard-has-crashed">second deadly accident</a>, in Ethiopia.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/lion-air-pilots-were-looking-at-handbook-when-plane-crashed">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:42:06 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Kiev slaps sanctions over Crimean bridge, elections in Donbasshttp://tass.com/economy/1049641
The sanctions apply to 294 entities and 848 individualsWed, 20 Mar 2019 16:40:43 +0100CNBC: Lululemon shares are up more than 80% over the past year, and one analyst says there's more upsidehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/lululemon-shares-have-had-a-strong-run-this-analyst-says-theres-more-ahead.html
Barclays calls out Lululemon&#039;s growing share of the athletic apparel market, its increasing investments in men&#039;s merchandise, and unique collaborations — like with SoulCycle — as driving momentum for the brand and fueling sales.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:36:00 +0100The Guardian: Voting rights of Viktor Orbán's party should be frozen, says MEPhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/manfred-weber-calls-for-freezing-of-hungarian-partys-voting-rights
<p>European centre-right candidate Manfred Weber cites concerns Fidesz flouted rule of law</p><p>Manfred Weber, the centre-right’s lead candidate in the upcoming European parliament meeting, has called for the voting rights of Hungary’s Fidesz party to be temporarily frozen over concerns that it was flouting the rule of law, participants in a meeting said.</p><p>German MEP Weber, who was addressing a committee of the European People’s party that is due to vote on Wednesday on whether to suspend or expel the far-right party of the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said a three-person committee should be set up to evaluate ties between Fidesz and the party group.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/manfred-weber-calls-for-freezing-of-hungarian-partys-voting-rights">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:35:02 +0100CNBC: 2020 Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg says this is 'the biggest problem with capitalism'https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/2020-candidate-pete-buttigieg-heres-the-biggest-problem-with-capitalism-right-now.html
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg says he is a capitalist, but he recommends removing money from politics. He says the &quot;ever-expanding&quot; growth of big businesses needs to be stopped from &quot;basically taking over our government.&quot;Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:34:00 +0100SKY NEWS: Sherlock bones: China clones its best police doghttp://news.sky.com/story/china-clones-sherlock-holmes-of-police-dogs-to-cut-training-costs-11671046
Scientists in China have cloned what they call the "Sherlock Holmes of police dogs" in a bid to cut training times and costs.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:33:00 +0100NEW YORK POST: The terrifying moment skiers are swept away by avalanchehttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/the-terrifying-moment-skiers-are-swept-away-by-avalanche/
This is the moment a group of skiers was swallowed up by an avalanche in the Austrian Alps. Miraculously, no one was injured when the skiers were suddenly enveloped by the falling slab of snow, according to the BBC, which published the undated footage Tuesday. The skiers were on a mountain when a ridge of...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:32:22 +0100CNBC: Auto stocks fall after BMW warns of global economic slowdown, trade troublehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/auto-stocks-fall-after-bmw-warns-of-economic-slowdown-trade-trouble.html
BMW executives said the industry faces a fiercely competitive environment, dogged by questions about how tariffs and trade tension between the U.S., China and Europe could affect supply chains, manufacturing and sales.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:32:00 +0100BBC: Native American inmates in Texas win right to grow hair longhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47613885
Three Texas prisoners win a nearly seven-year lawsuit to grow their hair long for religious beliefs.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:31:14 +0100The Guardian: Argentina: five-year-old boy rescued after 22 hours lost in deserthttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/argentina-boy-lost-el-salado-desert-rescued
<p>Benjamín Sánchez lost sight of his mother while playing hide-and-seek on visit to El Salado, a semi-desert region</p><p>A five-year-old boy who was lost for 22 hours in an Argentinian mountain wilderness inhabited by dangerous snakes, cougars and scorpions has been reunited with his family.<br><br>Benjamín Sánchez lost sight of his mother while playing hide-and-seek on a visit to El Salado, a semi-desert region of the province of San Juan in western Argentina.<br></p><p>“My mother was chasing me and I started to run,” he told the Clarín newspaper after his rescue. “I could hear her at first but then I got lost. I leaned on a rock, I started to call her but she couldn’t hear me.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/argentina-boy-lost-el-salado-desert-rescued">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:30:03 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Algeria tensions: Governing party chief backs protestershttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/algeria-tensions-governing-party-chief-backs-protesters/2019/03/20/cb327488-4b24-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
The acting head of Algeria’s governing party says the FLN party is throwing its support behind mass protests against President Abdelaziz BouteflikaWed, 20 Mar 2019 16:28:22 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Average life expectancy in Russia rose to 73 years in 2018 — experthttp://tass.com/society/1049648
The geriatrician said that life expectancy in Russia had risen by 0.8% in a yearWed, 20 Mar 2019 16:27:13 +0100The Guardian: Democrats bear some blame for the Trump-Kim summit collapse | Richard Beckhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/democrats-are-also-to-blame-for-the-trump-kim-summit-collapse
<p>Liberals have reliably denigrated Trump’s Korean outreach from the beginning, and did everything they could to diminish the chances for success</p><p>Who is responsible for the abrupt collapse of peace negotiations between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Hanoi last month? Though the summit’s failure does not mean the end of the peace process on the Korean peninsula – both sides were restrained and polite in their commentary afterward, with no insulting tweets or impromptu missile tests – it is a serious setback. Initial reports suggest there is lots of blame to go around, from Trump’s overestimation of his own abilities as a dealmaker, to Kim’s possibly unrealistic expectations as to how little the US would be willing to accept, to the uncompromising hawkishness of the national security adviser, John Bolton, who may have intentionally sabotaged negotiations by throwing extra demands into the mix at the last minute.</p><p>Some of this blame, however, belongs to Democratic politicians and liberal commentators, who have reliably denigrated Trump’s Korean outreach from the beginning, and did everything they could to diminish the Hanoi summit’s chances for success. Trump is an ignorant narcissist motivated solely by the desire to watch people say nice things about him on television, but his vanity has allowed Kim and the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, to jump-start a process that now offers the best chance for peace on the Korean peninsula in many decades. It is a genuinely historic opportunity, and for liberals to undermine it because they can’t stomach the idea of Trump receiving a Nobel peace prize is shameful.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/democrats-are-also-to-blame-for-the-trump-kim-summit-collapse">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:27:07 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Ukraine extends sanctions against banks with Russian capitalhttp://tass.com/economy/1049642
The sanctions will apply to four banksWed, 20 Mar 2019 16:25:24 +0100CNBC: The psychology of deception: How Elizabeth Holmes fooled everyone about Theranos for so longhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/hbos-the-inventor-how-elizabeth-holmes-fooled-people-about-theranos.html
&quot;If we end up with this story and say, it&#039;s one bad apple in one industry, that&#039;s a bad lesson,&quot; behavior expert Dan Ariely tells CNBC Make It. &quot;This is about the human condition.&quot;Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:23:00 +0100The Guardian: Driver arrested in Milan after allegedly setting school bus on firehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/driver-arrested-in-milan-after-allegedly-setting-school-bus-on-fire
<p>Bus driver allegedly set vehicle alight with 51 children on it and said: ‘Nobody gets off here alive’</p><p>The driver of a school bus was arrested in Milan on Wednesday after allegedly setting the vehicle on fire with 51 children onboard.</p><p>One of the children called the police after the driver stopped the bus on a highway in the outskirts of the city, Italian media reported.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/driver-arrested-in-milan-after-allegedly-setting-school-bus-on-fire">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:20:27 +0100WASHINGTON POST: New Zealand is one of the world’s happiest countries. That also makes it resilient.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/03/20/new-zealand-is-one-worlds-happiest-countries-that-also-makes-it-resilient/
A sense of being connected and close to one’s fellow citizens has been evident in the aftermath of the Christchurch shootings.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:17:55 +0100WASHINGTON POST: New Zealand is one of the world’s happiest countries. That also makes it resilient.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/worldviews/new-zealand-is-one-of-the-worlds-happiest-countries-that-also-makes-it-resilient/2019/03/20/50295591-7220-4815-8576-c75dd2227af3_story.html
The key is a sense of social connection.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:17:54 +0100NEW YORK POST: Ex-inmate used T-shirt launcher to send drugs over prison fence: copshttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/ex-inmate-used-t-shirt-launcher-to-send-drugs-over-prison-fence-cops/
It was a real trick up the sleeve. A just-released inmate is accused of sending a care package filled with drugs, cell phones and headphones flying into an Oklahoma prison yard &#8212; with the help of a T-shirt launcher. Kerri Jo Hickman was busted for the brazen stunt at North Fork Correctional Center, a medium-security...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:17:28 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Radovan Karadzic Sentenced to Life for Bosnian War Crimeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/europe/radovan-karadzic-bosnia-un-tribunal.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Mr. Karadzic was the president of the region that tried to break away from Bosnia, where violence carried out by the dominant Serbs forced out much of the Croat and Muslim population.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:16:39 +0100CNBC: A growing list of companies from FedEx to BMW are warning about the world economyhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/worried-about-the-global-economy-so-are-top-executives.html
Executives at FedEx, BMW and UBS are describing bleak macro-economic conditions around the world this week.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:16:00 +0100CNBC: Read the memo Disney CEO Bob Iger sent to employees after closing the $71 billion Fox dealhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/disney-ceo-bob-iger-sent-a-memo-to-employees-fox-deals-close.html
Thousands of layoffs are expected now that the deal has closed.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:13:00 +0100NEW YORK POST: Abusive ‘momager’ forced adopted kids to perform on popular YouTube channelhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/abusive-momager-forced-adopted-kids-to-perform-on-popular-youtube-channel/
A suburban Arizona mom with seven adopted kids portrayed a loving home life on the popular YouTube channel &#8220;Fantastic Adventures&#8221; &#8212; but behind the scenes, she was an abusive &#8220;momager&#8221; who forced the kids to perform and tortured them if they messed up on camera, police said. Machelle Hackney, 48, of Maricopa, along with her...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:10:40 +0100SKY NEWS: Radovan Karadzic has war crimes sentence extended to lifehttp://news.sky.com/story/radovan-karadzic-bosnian-serb-leader-has-war-crimes-sentence-extended-to-life-11671017
UN appeals judges have increased the sentence of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic from 40 years to life imprisonment.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:07:00 +0100CNBC: Facebook shows it's still serious about virtual reality with new $399 headsethttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/facebook-oculus-announces-399-rift-s-headset-launching-this-spring.html
Facebook announced the Oculus Rift S after reports last year that the company had no plans to upgrade its PC-connected virtual reality headset.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:00:00 +0100CNBC: Netflix drops 'Stranger Things' season 3 trailer, teasing new monster, more '80s nostagliahttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/netflix-releases-stranger-things-season-3-trailer.html
The cast of &quot;Stranger Things&quot; is a little older, but it seems that they are up to their old tricks in Netflix&#039;s first official trailer for the third season of the Emmy award-winning show due out on July 4.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:00:00 +0100CNBC: Ford to build new factory in Michigan for autonomous vehicleshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/ford-to-build-new-factory-in-michigan-for-autonomous-vehicles.html
Ford is building a new plant in Michigan for autonomous vehicles as the company realigns some factories to focus on its future lineup of self-driving and electric cars.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:00:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: In New Zealand, a soul-searching question: Are we as open minded as we think we are?https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-new-zealand-a-soul-searching-question-are-we-are-open-minded-as-we-think-we-are/2019/03/20/a82b62bc-48ed-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Mosque attacks have forced New Zealanders to challenge their assumptions — about themselves.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:58:25 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Photos from the Aftermath of Cyclone Idaihttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/africa/cyclone-idai-photographs.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Aid agencies have called it the worst natural disaster in southern Africa in two decades, and warned that the death toll could climb past 1,000.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:57:38 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Indian court acquits 4 Hindu activists in train bombing that killed over 40 Pakistani nationalshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/indian-court-acquits-4-hindu-activists-in-train-bombing-that-killed-over-40-pakistani-nationals/2019/03/20/1e1e635a-4b1b-11e9-b871-978e5c757325_story.html
A special court pronounced its verdict 12 years after the blast.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:56:52 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Lawyer: Ex-Bosnian Serb leader feels “moral responsibility” but not “individual criminal responsibility” for war crimeshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/lawyer-ex-bosnian-serb-leader-feels-moral-responsibility-but-not-individual-criminal-responsibility-for-war-crimes/2019/03/20/4f30ff02-4b20-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Lawyer: Ex-Bosnian Serb leader feels “moral responsibility” but not “individual criminal responsibility” for war crimesWed, 20 Mar 2019 15:56:16 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Hague tribunal tightens sentence to Bosnian Serbs ex-leader Karadzic to life imprisonmenthttp://tass.com/world/1049635
The judges considered the sentence of 40 years of imprisonment too mildWed, 20 Mar 2019 15:49:07 +0100BBC: Korea spycam porn: 1,600 fall victim and four men arrestedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47637734
Four men allegedly filmed 1,600 guests in 30 South Korean hotels and sold the footage online.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:48:49 +0100NEW YORK POST: Man uses nude mannequins to get revenge after neighbor’s fence disputehttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/man-uses-nude-mannequins-to-get-revenge-after-neighbors-fence-dispute/
A California man who was forced to shorten his fence over a neighbor&#8217;s complaints got the perfect revenge &#8212; by setting up a garden party of nude mannequins that is now in full view of the next-door home. Jason Windus of Santa Rosa said he built the tall fence to keep his dogs in his...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:48:14 +0100The Guardian: Rising flood levels threaten Mozambique disaster relief efforthttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/cyclone-idai-rising-flood-levels-threaten-mozambique-disaster-relief-effort
<p>Thousands of people stranded as workers tackle devastation wrought by Cyclone Idai </p><p>Rescue teams are rushing to save thousands of Mozambicans stranded on roofs and in trees before flood levels rise further.</p><p>Mozambique, which was hit by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/18/cyclone-idai-death-toll-climbs-over-120-in-mozambique-and-zimbabwe">Cyclone Idai over the weekend</a>, is trying to rescue people from vast and deadly flooding. It has declared a state of emergency and is appealing for international help.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/cyclone-idai-rising-flood-levels-threaten-mozambique-disaster-relief-effort">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:46:59 +0100The Guardian: Trump's plan for new homes in Scotland backed by officialshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/20/trump-plan-new-homes-scotland-backed-officials-aberdeenshire
<p>Controversial proposal for 550 luxury homes near golf club recommended for approval </p><p>Planners in Aberdeenshire have backed Donald Trump’s controversial plans to build up to 550 luxury homes near his golf course, despite a record number of objections.</p><p>The council’s planning officers said the scheme, due to be built in phases at a cost of around £25m, had “considerable merit” for the local economy and recommended that it is approved by the council next month, subject to conditions.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/20/trump-plan-new-homes-scotland-backed-officials-aberdeenshire">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:46:51 +0100WASHINGTON POST: France to deploy troops to maintain security during protestshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/france-to-deploy-troops-to-maintain-security-during-protests/2019/03/20/b25f7330-4b1e-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that soldiers deployed across the country will help maintaining security during yellow vests protests planned this weekendWed, 20 Mar 2019 15:44:43 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Ex Colombia soccer star arrested for drug shipmentshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/ex-colombia-soccer-star-arrested-for-drug-shipments/2019/03/20/5e136d54-4b1e-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Former Southampton and Portsmouth midfielder Jhon Viafara has been arrested in his native Colombia on a U.S. drug warrantWed, 20 Mar 2019 15:42:22 +0100CNBC: Amazon is launching Belei, its first skincare line, as it pushes further into private label productshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/amazon-is-getting-into-skincare.html
Amazon has launched its first dedicated skincare line, called Belei, for moisturizers and spot treatments.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:40:00 +0100The Guardian: Fake pathologist who examined air crash victims faces jailhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/fake-pathologist-examined-air-crash-victims-faces-jail
<p>Man tells Dutch court he forged qualifications to work at firm specialising in disasters</p><p>A fantasist who worked both as a forensic pathologist examining air crash victims and guest lecturer at a police academy is facing up to four years in jail in the Netherlands after admitting to forging his qualifications.</p><p>The man, named only as Peter B, worked for years for a firm specialising in the repatriation and identification of victims of major disasters, as well as the Dutch police and public health bodies.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/fake-pathologist-examined-air-crash-victims-faces-jail">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:37:44 +0100The Guardian: Yellow vest activist James Goddard denies assaulting journalisthttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/20/yellow-vest-activist-james-goddard-denies-assaulting-journalist
<p>Goddard, 29, also denies threatening photographer at event in Manchester city centre</p><p>The yellow vest activist James Goddard has denied charges of assaulting and threatening a journalist.</p><p>Goddard, 29, appeared with a small group of supporters at Manchester magistrates court on Wednesday morning.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/20/yellow-vest-activist-james-goddard-denies-assaulting-journalist">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:36:46 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: Trump calls top aide Kellyanne Conway's spouse 'husband from hell' in Twitter brawlhttps://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-calls-top-aide-kellyanne-conway-s-spouse-husband-from-hell-in-twitter-brawl-20190321-p5160f.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
US President Donald Trump, not one to shy away from a Twitter fight, intensified an online battle with senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway's husband on Wednesday, calling George Conway a "husband from hell."Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:35:03 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): India, Pakistan should not bring their disputes into SCO, organization’s chief sayshttp://tass.com/world/1049624
India and Pakistan were granted full SCO membership in mid-2017Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:32:21 +0100The Guardian: George Conway: why Kellyanne Conway’s husband is Trump’s biggest critichttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/shortcuts/2019/mar/20/george-conway-why-kellyanne-conways-husband-is-trumps-biggest-critic
<p>She came up with ‘alternative facts’ and endlessly defends her boss. He brands Trump witless, incompetent and mendacious. Somehow, they are still married<br></p><p><strong>Name:</strong> George T Conway III.</p><p><strong>Age: </strong>55.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/shortcuts/2019/mar/20/george-conway-why-kellyanne-conways-husband-is-trumps-biggest-critic">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:31:57 +0100WASHINGTON POST: US-backed Syrian fighters search tunnels in last IS pockethttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/us-backed-syrian-fighters-search-tunnels-in-last-is-pocket/2019/03/20/ae026fec-4b1c-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
U.S.-backed Syrian forces are conducting search operations in tunnels a day after seizing an encampment where Islamic State militants had been making their last stand in SyriaWed, 20 Mar 2019 15:30:17 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russia upgrading its most powerful radar while keeping it on combat dutyhttp://tass.com/science/1049632
Today this radar controls the airspace up to the northern coast of Alaska and Canada and fully covers Greenland and partially IcelandWed, 20 Mar 2019 15:24:37 +0100NEW YORK POST: Posh couple paid in Facebook stock to get daughter into UCLAhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/posh-couple-paid-in-facebook-stock-to-get-daughter-into-ucla/
A well-heeled California couple paid $250,000 worth of Facebook stock to weasel their non-athletic daughter into UCLA as a soccer recruit for one of the best programs in the nation, according to court papers. Lauren Isackson is listed as midfielder No. 41 on UCLA’s soccer team in 2017 &#8212; the same year the elite squad...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:22:14 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Check out Apple's new AirPods 2http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DA9O9kASrmE/index.html
The Apple product surprises keep rolling out this week.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DA9O9kASrmE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:21:07 +0100NEW YORK POST: Meghan McCain responds to Trump attacks with quote from her dadhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/meghan-mccain-responds-to-trump-attacks-with-quote-from-her-dad/
Meghan McCain, the daughter of late Sen. John McCain, who&#8217;s been the object of President Trump&#8217;s ire over the last several days, responded to the attacks with a phrase favored by the Arizona Republican. &#8220;As my father always used to say to me &#8211; Illegitimi non carborundum,&#8221; she posted on Twitter late Tuesday. The Latin...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:18:51 +0100BBC: Radovan Karadzic sentence increased to life at UN tribunalhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47642327
A tribunal rejects the Bosnian Serb ex-leader's appeal and increases his jail term for genocide.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:15:14 +0100Voice of Europe: Britain Asks for Brexit Delay Until June 30https://www.voanews.com/a/britain-asks-for-brexit-delay-until-june-30/4839302.html
British Prime Minister Theresa May asked the European Union Wednesday to delay Britain's exit from the 28-nation bloc for three months, until June 30.
Britain had been set to carry out its Brexit plan and split from the EU on March 29, but parliament has been unable in a string of votes to agree on the terms of its departure. Lawmakers have been debating details of everyday passage at the border between EU member Ireland and London-controlled Northern Ireland, along with trade issues.
Any delay in Brexit needs approval from the remaining 27 EU nations, who are meeting in Brussels on Thursday. Britain's negotiations with the EU have already lasted for more than two years.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the EU is not open to further negotiations and is unlikely to decide this week whether to give Britain the extension it wants.
So far, Britain's House of Commons has emphatically rejected the terms British and EU negotiators reached, while also turning down Brexit without terms of a deal in place.
Juncker told Germany's Deutschlandfunk radio that May needs to show the EU some more clarity about Britain's plans in order to win an extension.
"There will be no renegotiations, no new negotiations and no additional assurances on top of the additional assurances we have already given," he said.
May sought to have another parliament vote on her proposed terms for leaving the EU, but House of Commons Speaker John Bercow ruled this week that the prime minister cannot keep asking lawmakers to vote on a proposal they have already twice rejected.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:15:12 +0100ARAB WORLD NEWS: Radovan Karadzic sentence increased to life for Bosnia genocide: UN judgeshttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1469841/world
<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">AFP</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1553091135043795800</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wed, 2019-03-20 14:06</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>
THE HAGUE: UN judges on Wednesday ordered former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to spend the rest of his life in jail for genocide and war crimes, increasing his original sentence of 40 years.<br />
A panel of appeals judges in The Hague “imposes a sentence of life imprisonment” after rejecting Karadzic’s appeal against his original 2016 conviction for atrocities including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, head judge Vagn Joensen said.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.arabnews.com/sites/default/files/2019/03/20/1496881-243937850.jpg" width="1130" height="753" alt="" title="Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic arrives at the court room of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, Netherlands, on March 20, 2019 to hear the final judgement on his role in the bloody conflict that tore his country apart a quarter of a century ago. (AFP/AP Pool)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/world">World</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/bosnia">Bosnia</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/serbia">Serbia</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/war-crimes">war crimes</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/radovan-karadzic">Radovan Karadzic</a></div></div></div> Bosnia’s Karadzic faces final war crimes verdict in The HagueSrebrenica survivors hope Karadzic gets life sentenceWed, 20 Mar 2019 15:14:28 +0100The Guardian: May says she is not prepared to delay Brexit beyond 30 June – videohttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2019/mar/20/theresa-may-not-prepared-delay-brexit-beyond-30-june-video
<p>Theresa May has written to the EU seeking a short delay to Brexit until the end of June, telling MPs at PMQs that a longer delay would mean ‘a failure to deliver’ on the result of the 2016 referendum</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/20/theresa-may-asks-eu-for-brexit-delay-until-30-june">Theresa May asks EU for Brexit delay until 30 June</a></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2019/mar/20/theresa-may-not-prepared-delay-brexit-beyond-30-june-video">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:08:52 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Albania president: Ready to resign to solve political crisishttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/albania-president-ready-to-resign-to-solve-political-crisis/2019/03/20/a10ed9cc-4b19-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
The Albanian president says he would be ready to resign from his post if that helped to resolve the country’s political crisisWed, 20 Mar 2019 15:08:26 +0100The Guardian: New Zealand foreign minister to confront Erdoğan over video of Christchurch attackhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/new-zealand-foreign-minister-winston-peters-to-confront-erdogan-over-video-of-christchurch-attack
<p>Winston Peters will meet Erdoğan after Turkish president used video at rallies</p><p>New Zealand’s foreign minister is travelling to Istanbul, where he will confront the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, over his decision to use footage of the Christchurch terrorist attack at his election rallies, alongside threats that Turkey will make those responsible “pay for it”.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/18/erdogan-shows-christchurch-attack-footage-at-rallies">Erdoğan’s repeated use of the footage</a>, largely in a bid to portray his chief election opponents as soft on terrorism, has infuriated the New Zealand government, which is trying to blend a message of reconciliation with the Islamic community in New Zealand with a promise to crack down on the causes of terrorism.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/new-zealand-foreign-minister-winston-peters-to-confront-erdogan-over-video-of-christchurch-attack">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:04:49 +0100NEW YORK POST: Florida realtor repeatedly raped woman from China looking to buy home: copshttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/realtor-repeatedly-raped-woman-from-china-looking-to-buy-home-cops/
A real estate agent in Florida repeatedly raped a woman who traveled from China to look at houses last year – and told her authorities would believe his word as an American citizen if she reported the crime, police said. Wentworth Huang Wang, 38, was arrested late Sunday on three counts of sexual battery after...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:03:32 +0100WASHINGTON POST: UN appeals court increases Radovan Karadzic’s sentence to life imprisonmenthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/un-appeals-court-increases-radovan-karadzics-sentence-to-life-imprisonment/2019/03/20/ece3a78e-4b18-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
UN appeals court increases Radovan Karadzic’s sentence to life imprisonmentWed, 20 Mar 2019 15:03:24 +0100The Guardian: Britain's arms export watchdog in danger of becoming toothlesshttps://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/mar/20/britain-arms-export-watchdog-in-danger-of-becoming-toothless
<p>As ministers and weapons manufacturers alike shun the body that oversees UK arms exports, its authority is at risk of being eroded</p><p>As Britain’s foreign secretary<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/13/time-running-out-to-turn-yemen-ceasefire-into-peace-says-hunt"> warns</a> of “a shortening window of opportunity” for peace in Yemen, the hours are also counting down for weapons manufacturer Raytheon UK to explain its activities to the government’s committees on arms export control (CAEC).</p><p>Raytheon, the world’s <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/12/11/the-worlds-biggest-arms-companies-infographic/#64683a05475a">third largest manufacturer</a>, was called upon to give live evidence on Wednesday. However, the company has effectively avoided face-to-face scrutiny by simply declining to attend.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/mar/20/britain-arms-export-watchdog-in-danger-of-becoming-toothless">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:03:08 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Rivalry on ice: Zagitova zooms into lead at world figure skating championshiphttp://tass.com/sport/1049594
Russian Olympic champion Alina Zagitova took the lead after the short program on the opening day of the world figure skating championshipsWed, 20 Mar 2019 15:03:06 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: EU Commission resists Theresa May's June 30 Brexit date, document showhttps://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/eu-commission-resists-theresa-may-s-june-30-brexit-date-document-show-20190321-p5160e.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
In a note on the Brexit process, officials wrote that leaders meeting May at a summit on Thursday faced a "binary" choice.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:02:36 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): USC to build two more frigates of project 22350 for Russian Navyhttp://tass.com/defense/1049623
Project 22350 frigates are the most advanced ships in the Russian NavyWed, 20 Mar 2019 15:02:21 +0100WASHINGTON POST: UN appeals court upholds Radovan Karadzic’s convictions for genocide in Srebrenica, war crimes, crimes against humanityhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/un-appeals-court-upholds-radovan-karadzics-convictions-for-genocide-in-srebrenica-war-crimes-crimes-against-humanity/2019/03/20/c5224368-4b18-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
UN appeals court upholds Radovan Karadzic’s convictions for genocide in Srebrenica, war crimes, crimes against humanityWed, 20 Mar 2019 15:02:18 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Shipbuilders to deliver 2nd improved Yasen-class submarine to Russian Navy in 2020http://tass.com/defense/1049612
The lead warship of the modernized Yasen-M Project, the nuclear-powered submarine Kazan, is currently undergoing trialsWed, 20 Mar 2019 15:01:46 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: World's happiest country for 2019 namedhttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/KFf1ckqjNLw/index.html
The United Nations' has released its annual World Happiness Report. Can you guess which country took the the No. 1 spot?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/KFf1ckqjNLw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:01:30 +0100CNBC: These people won't have their taxes ready by April 15https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/these-people-wont-have-their-taxes-ready-by-april-15.html
If you&#039;re asking Uncle Sam for more time to turn in your Form 1040, you&#039;re not alone. Here&#039;s who&#039;s likely to request an extension.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:59:00 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Tokyo salutes baseball 'god' Ichiro Suzukihttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/TnHDWlWfWnQ/index.html
The cheering began well before the Japanese "god" reached home plate.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/TnHDWlWfWnQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:54:29 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: ‘So Heartbreaking’: Funerals Begin for New Zealand Attack Victimshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/asia/christchurch-funerals.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
As the first six victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings were laid to rest, some affected families were still waiting to learn the fate of their loved ones.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:51:08 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: May Requests Brexit Delayhttps://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000006419740/may-brexit-delay.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain spoke to Parliament on Wednesday about her request to delay Brexit until June 30. Parliament has previously rejected her plans to leave the European Union twice.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:46:52 +0100CNBC: More than free money: Here's how long-shot 2020 candidate Andrew Yang would reshape the US economyhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/how-long-shot-2020-candidate-andrew-yang-would-reshape-the-us-economy.html
Long-shot Democratic candidate Andrew Yang has proposed a $1,000 monthly stipend to Americans ages 18 to 64, but he&#039;s looking to tackle other issues.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:46:00 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Yelena Anikina elected as president of Russian Bobsleigh Federationhttp://tass.com/sport/1049610
Former RBF President Alexander Zubkov is currently under a two-year suspension, imposed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation earlier in the yearWed, 20 Mar 2019 14:45:16 +0100SKY NEWS: Donald Trump attacks the husband of one of his closest aideshttp://news.sky.com/story/donald-trump-attacks-the-husband-of-one-of-his-closest-aides-11670943
Donald Trump has raised the stakes in an ongoing feud with the spouse of one of his closest advisers - describing him as a "loser" and the "husband from hell".Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:45:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Spy cameras secretly live-streamed 1,600 hotel guests for subscribers. Then police caught on.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/spy-cameras-secretly-live-streamed-1600-hotel-guests-for-subscribers-then-police-caught-on/2019/03/20/746c5876-b943-4a57-be1c-e264b5b632e4_story.html
Two arrested after hundreds of hotel guests were filmed in south Korea for live-stream subscribers.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:44:27 +0100The Hindu International: Kazakhstan renames capital ‘Nursultan’ after ex-Presidenthttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/kazakhstan-renames-capital-nursultan-after-ex-president/article26592259.ece
Interim President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed changing the name of the Central Asian nation’s capital from Astana to Nursultan, or “Sultan of Light” in Kazakh, and parliament approved the change within hours.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:44:24 +0100CNBC: Hong Kong is building an $80 billion artificial island to fix its housing shortagehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/hong-kong-is-building-an-80-billion-artificial-island.html
Secretary for Development Michael Wong said in a speech Tuesday that around 1,000 hectares of land would be constructed to deal with Hong Kong&#039;s &quot;serious shortage of land supply.&quot;Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:37:00 +0100CNBC: Chrissy Metz on her worst credit card fail, why she shops at Costco and her Warren Buffett mindsethttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/chrissy-metz-of-this-is-us-on-credit-card-fails-costco-and-success.html
&quot;I had a plan for a lot of other things — finding a man, my career. But not my finances,&quot; &quot;This Is Us&quot; star Chrissy Metz tells CNBC Make It.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:36:00 +0100CNBC: Samsung's Galaxy Buds look less silly than Apple AirPods and are just as goodhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/samsung-galaxy-buds-versus-airpods-review.html
Samsung&#039;s Galaxy Buds are a good alternative to Apple AirPods if you own an Android phone. But AirPods are best for iPhone owners.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:36:00 +0100The Guardian: Italian Senate blocks criminal case against Matteo Salvinihttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/italian-senate-blocks-criminal-case-against-matteo-salvini
<p>Deputy prime minister will not be tried over refusal to allow 177 asylum seekers to disembark from rescue ship</p><p>Italy’s Senate has voted to block a criminal case against the far-right deputy prime minister and interior minister, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/matteo-salvini">Matteo Salvini</a>, for refusing to allow migrants to disembark from a rescue ship.</p><p>In January, an Italian court ruled that Salvini should be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/24/court-in-italy-rules-matteo-salvini-should-be-tried-for-kidnapping">tried for the kidnapping</a> of 177 asylum seekers he prevented from disembarking the Italian coastguard ship Ubaldo Diciotti in August last year.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/italian-senate-blocks-criminal-case-against-matteo-salvini">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:31:18 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Indian court acquits 4 Hindus in blast on train to Pakistanhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indian-court-acquits-4-hindus-in-blast-on-train-to-pakistan/2019/03/20/e471fef2-4b13-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
An Indian court has acquitted four Hindus charged with triggering explosions on a train heading to India’s border with Pakistan 12 years ago, killing 68 people, mostly Pakistani citizensWed, 20 Mar 2019 14:27:23 +0100NEW YORK POST: Trump, George Conway continue explosive online feudhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/trump-george-conway-continue-explosive-online-feud/
The online feud between President Trump and the spouse of top White House aide Kellyanne Conway continued into a second day on Wednesday, with Trump calling George Conway the &#8220;husband from hell&#8221; and Conway calling him &#8220;nuts.&#8221; &#8220;George Conway, often referred to as Mr. Kellyanne Conway by those who know him, is VERY jealous of...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:27:16 +0100The Guardian: Mums Make Porn: can five normal women do it better than the pros?https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/20/mums-make-porn-can-five-normal-women-do-it-better-than-the-pros
<p>Hardcore pornography is just two clicks away for today’s children – so who better to rewrite the rules of sex on screen than their mums? <br></p><p>Of course I thought I was going to be watching porn starring mums. It’s the punchline that’s been adorning student T-shirts for decades: Support Single Mothers … Watch Porn! Arf arf.</p><p>Only, in this case, we’re not doing that. Instead, we’re following a group of five disparate women try to make a porn film they’d be happy to exist out in the real world. The fact they are mothers is not necessarily surprising – a lot of people are – but it does add poignancy to their feelings about the effect pornography has on young people. When Sarah, a single mother of a young teenage daughter, starts shaking after seeing a link to a film titled, simply, ‘girl gets raped,’ it’s hard not to share her concern.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/20/mums-make-porn-can-five-normal-women-do-it-better-than-the-pros">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:26:06 +0100The Guardian: Trump heads to Ohio as critics condemn his attack on McCain – livehttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/mar/20/donald-trump-latest-news-live-us-politics-ohio-mccain
<ul><li>Trump to visit America’s last remaining tank plant in Canton</li><li>Republican Johnny Isakson to condemn Trump for McCain feud</li></ul><p class="block-time published-time"> <time datetime="2019-03-20T12:50:12.760Z">12.50pm <span class="timezone">GMT</span></time> </p><p>Good morning</p><p>Donald Trump is in Ohio today, speaking at a tank plant and raising money, Republican Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia <a href="https://thebulwark.com/exclusive-sen-johnny-isakson-stands-up-for-mccain-unloads-on-trump/">will speak out today</a> to condemn Trump for his attacks on John McCain and Iowa Congressman Steve King refused to answer a question Tuesday about whether “a white society is superior to a non-white society,” saying it was “hypothetical.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/mar/20/donald-trump-latest-news-live-us-politics-ohio-mccain">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:24:11 +0100CNBC: There was mysterious selling in FedEx on Tuesday before poor earnings took down the stockhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/there-was-mysterious-selling-in-fedex-on-tuesday-before-poor-earnings-took-down-the-stock.html
Jon Najarian saw a big &#039;tell&#039; in FedEx&#039;s trading on Tuesday before the earnings report.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:20:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: The Latest: Hearing underway for Karadzic appeals decisionshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/the-latest-hearing-underway-for-karadzic-appeals-decisions/2019/03/20/f6dfbaae-4b11-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
United Nations judges are set to hand down their decisions in the appeal by former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic against his convictions and 40-year sentence for masterminding atrocities in his country’s devastating 1992-95 warWed, 20 Mar 2019 14:16:35 +0100Voice of Europe: EU Fines Google $1.7 Billion for Abusing Online ads Markethttps://www.voanews.com/a/eu-fines-google-1-7-billion-for-abusing-online-ads-market/4839305.html
European Union regulators have hit Google with a 1.49 billion euro ($1.68 billion) fine for abusing its dominant role in online advertising.
It's the third time the commission has slapped Google with an antitrust penalty, following multibillion-dollar fines resulting from separate probes into two other parts of the Silicon Valley giant's business.
The EU's competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, announced the results of the long-running probe of Google's AdSense advertising business at a news conference in Brussels on Wednesday.
"Today's decision is about how Google abused its dominance to stop websites using brokers other than the AdSense platform," Vestager said.
The commission found that Google and its parent company, Alphabet, breached EU antitrust rules by imposing restrictive clauses in contracts with websites that used AdSense, preventing Google rivals from placing their ads on these sites.
Google "prevented its rivals from having a chance to innovate and to compete in the market on their merits," Vestager said. "Advertisers and website owners, they had less choice and likely faced higher prices that would be passed on to consumers."
AdSense is an older Google product that lets web publishers such as bloggers place text ads on their websites, with the content of the ads based on results from search functions on their sites. Microsoft filed an EU antitrust complaint about the service in 2009 and the EU Commission formally launched its probe in 2016, although it said at the time that Google had already made some changes to allow affected customers more freedom to show competing ads.
Last year, Vestager hit the company with a record 4.34 billion euro ($5 billion) fine following an investigation into its Android operating system. In 2017, she slapped Google with a 2.42 billion euro fine in a case involving its online shopping search results.
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:16:27 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: ‘So Heartbreaking’: Funerals Begin for New Zealand Attack Victimshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/asia/new-zealand-shooting-victims-funerals.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
As the first six victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings were laid to rest, some affected families were still waiting to learn the fate of their loved ones.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:15:16 +0100BBC: Tayla Harris: Australian rules football player's online trolling compared to sexual abusehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/47637760
The online abuse of Australian rules footballer Tayla Harris is "abhorrent and disgusting" say leading pundits of the game.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:12:46 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russian frigate Admiral Kasatonov to be handed over to Russian Navy in Decemberhttp://tass.com/defense/1049603
The Project 22350 frigates are expected to become the Russian Navy’s most advanced warships of their classWed, 20 Mar 2019 14:07:21 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Ichiro cheered at Tokyo Dome, Mariners top A’s 9-7 in openerhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/ichiro-cheered-at-tokyo-dome-mariners-top-as-9-7-in-opener/2019/03/20/d5712fca-4b10-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Ichiro Suzuki drew the loudest ovation back home in Japan and Domingo Santana delivered the biggest hit, launching a grand slam that led the Seattle Mariners over the Oakland Athletics 9-7 in the Major League Baseball openerWed, 20 Mar 2019 14:05:29 +0100The Guardian: UK manufacturers in despair at Brexit impasse, says CBIhttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/20/uk-manufacturers-in-despair-at-brexit-impasse-says-cbi
<p>Total orders fall back in March as firms put off investment and stockpile goods</p><p>Britain’s manufacturers are in despair at the failure of politicians to end the Brexit impasse, according to the CBI, which reported a drop in output in March as businesses cut back production.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/12/uk-economy-january-brexit-gdp-growth">Export order books increased</a> among the 358 manufacturers in the survey, supported by the low level of sterling, but this was cancelled out by a decline in domestic demand to leave the industry in a weakening position ahead of a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/mar/20/brexit-latest-news-letter-article-50-extension-pmqs-theresa-may-bends-to-pressure-from-tory-brexiters-and-rules-out-asking-for-long-article-extension-politics-live">decision in parliament</a> on Brexit.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/20/uk-manufacturers-in-despair-at-brexit-impasse-says-cbi">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:04:30 +0100CNBC: The UK has asked the EU for a delay to Brexit, what comes next?https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/uk-requests-short-extension-on-brexit-what-happens-next.html
The U.K. has delivered a letter to the European Union asking for a short extension to its departure from the bloc. Here&#039;s a quick guide to what could happen next.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:03:00 +0100CNBC: Investors who believe the market's gotten too calm right now could use these ETFs to hedgehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/investors-who-believe-the-markets-gotten-too-calm-right-now-could-use-these-etfs-to-hedge.html
The Cboe Volatility Index, or the VIX, hit its lowest level since October on Tuesday, but periods of calm like this don&#039;t last for long.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:02:00 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: A Syrian father and son are first Christchurch victims to be buriedhttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/ei8ar9-Je38/index.html
Zaid Mustafa should have been at school on Wednesday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/ei8ar9-Je38" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:01:44 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): UK requests Brexit delay until June 30http://tass.com/world/1049604
Brexit was initially scheduled for March 29Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:00:42 +0100CNBC: Starbucks announces trials for recyclable and compostable cupshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/starbucks-announces-trials-for-recyclable-and-compostable-cups.html
Starbucks announced its plan to start testing recyclable and compostable cups in several markets later this year at its annual shareholders meeting.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:00:00 +0100CNBC: Need help paying for college? It's not too late to file a FAFSAhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/its-not-too-late-to-get-college-aid.html
The FAFSA season opened Oct. 1 for the 2019-2020 school year, but it&#039;s not too late for students who haven&#039;t filed.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:00:00 +0100CNBC: Here's how Starbucks is planning for its futurehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/heres-how-starbucks-is-planning-for-its-future.html
At its annual shareholders meeting Wednesday, Starbucks shared two targets to aid in future growth: start-ups and the in-store experience.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:00:00 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: What will change as shock waves of terrorism flow across two countries?https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/what-will-change-as-shock-waves-of-terrorism-flow-across-two-countries-20190320-p515t5.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
The shock of the Christchurch terror attack has reverberated across Australian and New Zealand. But will the consequences be permanent or temporary.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:00:00 +0100Sydney Morning Herald: From the Archives: Gunpoint in PNG; mercenaries evacuatedhttps://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/from-the-archives-gunpoint-in-png-mercenaries-evacuated-20190319-p515hi.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world
On March 21st 1997, there was unrest in PNG as 55 foreign mercenaries were forced out and details of a contract with mercenary provider Sandline were revealed.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:00:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Italy: Driver of bus full of children sets it on firehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/italy-driver-of-bus-full-of-children-sets-it-on-fire/2019/03/20/b702e850-4b0e-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Italian authorities say a bus driver transporting schoolchildren stopped his vehicle on a provincial highway, told the passengers to get off and then doused the interior with gasoline and set it on fireWed, 20 Mar 2019 13:56:18 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): European Commission fines Google for 1.49 bln euros for violating EU antitrust ruleshttp://tass.com/economy/1049601
The antitrust investigation against Google covered the period from 2006 to 2016Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:55:47 +0100NEW YORK POST: Surgeon breaks down recalling moment mosque victims flooded hospitalhttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/surgeon-breaks-down-recalling-moment-mosque-victims-flooded-hospital/
A Kuwaiti-born surgeon and father of four broke down in tears as he recounted how he worked to save a 4-year-old girl wounded in the mosque attacks – saying, &#8220;It could have been my boy, it could have been my girl.&#8221; Dr. Adib Khanafer, a vascular surgeon, was operating on a patient at Christchurch Hospital...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:54:56 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump Jr. Scolds Theresa May Over Brexit: ‘Was It All a Ruse?’https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/europe/donald-trump-jr-brexit.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
In an op-ed for a British newspaper, President Trump’s eldest son said his father’s advice had been ignored and accused “European elites” of derailing the process.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:53:47 +0100The Hindu International: Britain has requested Brexit delay until June 30: Theresa Mayhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/britain-has-requested-brexit-delay-until-june-30-theresa-may/article26591914.ece
Delaying Brexit would bring “serious legal and political risks”, the European Commission warns.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:53:12 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Britain’s May asks E.U. for three month Brexit delayhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/britains-may-asks-eu-for-three-month-brexit-delay/2019/03/20/142de48a-4b05-11e9-93d0-64dbcf38ba41_story.html
E.U. officials are frustrated by Britain’s inability to negotiate its departure.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:52:19 +0100CNBC: The market could be setting itself up for a letdown from Wednesday's Fed decisionhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/the-market-could-be-setting-itself-up-for-a-letdown-from-wednesdays-fed-decision.html
Should the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee not deliver on market expectations, the result may not be pretty.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:51:00 +0100The Guardian: Google fined €1.49bn by EU for advertising violationshttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/20/google-fined-149bn-by-eu-for-advertising-violations
<p>Tech company has been fined total of €8.24bn by EU commission over past two years</p><p>Google has been fined €1.49bn (£1.28bn) by the European commission for abusing its monopoly in online advertising.</p><p>The latest fine takes the total the company has been fined by the EU competition commission to €8.24bn over the past two years, for abusing its power in markets, ranging from shopping search to mobile phone operating systems.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/20/google-fined-149bn-by-eu-for-advertising-violations">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:44:46 +0100BBC: US air strikes killed Somali civilians - Amnestyhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47638496
Amnesty International says it recorded 14 recent deaths - the US says its targets are "terrorists".Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:44:02 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Holi: The legends behind the festival of colorhttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/z5ABOG4t3p4/index.html
It's the bold image of India most often seen in ad campaigns, films and music videos: People coming together from all walks of life to sing, dance and splash their friends and family with colored powder and water.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/z5ABOG4t3p4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:41:13 +0100CNBC: Trump's sanctions and OPEC supply cuts are about to push oil prices higher: Morgan Stanleyhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/trump-sanctions-opec-cuts-to-push-oil-prices-higher-morgan-stanley.html
The oil market will soon swing into undersupply, supporting Brent crude above $75 a barrel, Morgan Stanley forecasts.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:41:00 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Kazakhstan’s former president, Russian PM agree to maintain regular contactshttp://tass.com/world/1049599
Nursultan Nazarbayev announced his resignation after almost 30 years in powerWed, 20 Mar 2019 13:38:16 +0100WASHINGTON POST: UN says Libya factions to meet in Tripoli over electionshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/un-says-libya-factions-to-meet-in-tripoli-over-elections/2019/03/20/0847f518-4b0d-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
The U.N. envoy to Libya says rival factions will meet next month to set dates for parliamentary and presidential electionsWed, 20 Mar 2019 13:38:16 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): More than half of Russians support gender equality, poll sayshttp://tass.com/society/1049596
The poll shows that in Russian society there isn’t a unified position on whether gender equality is possible in various spheres of lifeWed, 20 Mar 2019 13:38:16 +0100CNBC: Ford teases electric Mustang 'Pony Car' on Twitter as Musk unveiled Tesla Model Yhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/ford-teases-electric-mustang-on-twitter-as-tesla-unveiled-model-y.html
President of the Americas Joe Hinrichs told CNBC the company is moving quickly toward producing what it previously described as a &quot;Mustang-inspired&quot; all-electric SUV that will be in showrooms next year.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:37:00 +0100BBC: Nursultan: Kazakhstan renames capital Astana after ex-presidenthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47638619
Astana becomes Nursultan just one day after Nursultan Nazarbayev's surprise resignation.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:36:50 +0100CNBC: General Mills stock jumps after earnings beat and raised outlookhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/general-mills-stock-jumps-after-earnings-beat-and-raised-outlook.html
Shares of General Mills jumped 4 percent during premarket trading Wednesday after the company reported earnings.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:36:00 +0100The Guardian: Theresa May asks EU for Brexit delay until 30 Junehttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/20/theresa-may-asks-eu-for-brexit-delay-until-30-june
<p>Prime minister says longer delay would mean a failure to deliver on 2016 referendum</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/mar/20/brexit-latest-news-letter-article-50-extension-pmqs-theresa-may-bends-to-pressure-from-tory-brexiters-and-rules-out-asking-for-long-article-extension-politics-live">Follow the latest political developments - live updates</a></li></ul><p>Theresa May has written to the EU seeking a brief delay to Brexit until the end of June, telling MPs that a longer delay would mean “a failure to deliver” on the result of the 2016 referendum.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/20/theresa-may-short-brexit-delay-what-happens-next-explainer">Theresa May is seeking a short Brexit delay – what happens next?</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/20/theresa-may-asks-eu-for-brexit-delay-until-30-june">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:35:47 +0100CNBC: Apple announces new AirPods with wireless charging and voice controlshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/apple-airpods-with-wireless-charging-and-hey-siri-announced.html
Apple just announced the second-generation AirPods, which include wireless charging and support for &#039;Hey Siri.&#039;Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:34:00 +0100CNBC: Cockpit voice recorder of doomed Lion Air jet depicts pilots' frantic search for a fixhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/cockpit-voice-recorder-of-doomed-lion-air-jet-depicts-pilots-frantic-search-for-fix-sources-say.html
The pilots of a doomed Lion Air Boeing 737 Max scoured a handbook as they struggled to understand why the jet was lurching downwards, but ran out of time before it hit the water.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:33:00 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Putin says UK business can participate in implementing National Projects in Russiahttp://tass.com/economy/1049595
Hundreds of billions of dollars are planned to be invested into development of economy and social sphere within the framework of National Projects in Russia, according to PutinWed, 20 Mar 2019 13:32:54 +0100SKY NEWS: Satellite images used to create video of meteor explosionhttp://news.sky.com/story/scientist-uses-satellite-imagery-to-create-video-of-enormous-meteor-explosion-11670904
A scientist from the University of Oxford has used satellite data to create a video of an enormous explosion in the atmosphere which took place last year, but was only recently discovered.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:31:00 +0100WASHINGTON POST: A Danish lawmaker took her baby daughter to work. She was kicked out of parliament’s chambers.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/worldviews/a-danish-lawmaker-took-her-baby-daughter-to-work-she-was-kicked-out-of-parliaments-chambers/2019/03/20/c044be64-cef6-402d-9165-b00e651c1d9a_story.html
“You are not welcome with your baby in the parliament’s chamber."Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:23:18 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Bilateral nuclear disarmament has exhausted itself, says Lavrovhttp://tass.com/defense/1049578
It should be made multilateral and based on the principle of integral and indivisible security, the Russian Foreign Minister believesWed, 20 Mar 2019 13:19:40 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Russian shipbuilders to deliver 2-3 subs a year from 2020http://tass.com/defense/1049592
The Russian defense minister earlier said that the Navy would get two nuclear-powered submarines and one diesel-electric sub this yearWed, 20 Mar 2019 13:19:12 +0100CNBC: Google is winning in education, but Apple and Microsoft are battling for market sharehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/apple-google-microsoft-are-battling-for-dominance-in-education.html
Google has a majority of the U.S. education tech market, largely because Chromebooks are affordable.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:16:00 +0100CNBC: Here's what Wall Street's biggest bear needs to see to get more bullishhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/what-wall-streets-biggest-bear-needs-to-see-to-get-more-bullish.html
Lower interest rates, tighter credit spreads, market liquidity and dovish central banks could get Wells Fargo&#039;s Chris Harvey to become more bullish on 2019.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:16:00 +0100CNBC: Buy Boeing shares because the 737 Max is 'too big to fail,' analyst sayshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/buy-boeing-shares-because-the-737-max-is-too-big-to-fail-analyst-says.html
Analysts at Berenberg are calling Boeing a &quot;tough sell&quot; as they see the 737 Max model that had two deadly crashes &quot;too big to fail.&quot;Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:14:00 +0100NEW YORK POST: US man arrested for stabbing wife to death in Japanese courthttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/us-man-arrested-for-stabbing-wife-to-death-in-japanese-court/
TOKYO — Media reports say Japanese police have arrested an American man on suspicion of fatally stabbing his Japanese wife at a court where they were to settle a divorce. NHK public television says the man, identified only as a 32-year-old U.S. citizen, stabbed the woman in the neck on Wednesday near a security check...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:09:37 +0100CNBC: Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: General Mills, Johnson & Johnson, Viacom, Sony & morehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/stocks-making-the-biggest-moves-premarket-general-mills-johnson--johnson-viacom-sony--more.html
Names on the move ahead of the open.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:07:00 +0100BBC: Holi: Hindus across India and Nepal celebrate festival of colourshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47637864
Mainly celebrated in India and Nepal, Holi marks the beginning of spring.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:04:20 +0100The Guardian: Stags in the city: how deer found their way into our town centres and back gardenshttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/20/stags-in-the-city-how-deer-found-their-way-into-our-town-centres-and-back-gardens
<p>As the UK’s deer population explodes, more of the animals are heading into urban areas. Why – and will they be welcome there?</p><p>If you head out to the shops today, or a churchyard, or a school, or a playground, and you live in a town or city, you might be in for a surprise. Cats, dogs, squirrels, even foxes are part and parcel of our urban landscapes now but increasingly, it’s not out of the question that you might just as easily meet a deer.</p><p>The deer population in the UK is at the highest it has been for at least 1,000 years, at around two million.<strong> </strong>Over the past few decades, does and stags have been spotted in urban areas and villages around the UK, from Glasgow, to Sheffield and London. This week, the Royal Horticultural Society released guidance on how gardeners can deer-proof their outdoor spaces. Replace tulips with daffodils and red hot pokers, it suggests, because deer don’t like the taste and it will stop them rummaging through your flowerbeds.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/20/stags-in-the-city-how-deer-found-their-way-into-our-town-centres-and-back-gardens">Continue reading...</a>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:00:13 +0100SKY NEWS: NZ mosque shootings: Faces of those feared deadhttp://news.sky.com/story/nz-mosque-shootings-faces-of-those-feared-dead-11670864
At least 50 people were killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:00:00 +0100CNBC: Here are the biggest analyst calls of the day: Lyft, Monster, FedEx, Rockwell Automation & morehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/calls-of-the-day-lyft-monster-beverage-fedex-rockwell-automation--more.html
Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on WednesdayWed, 20 Mar 2019 13:00:00 +0100CNBC: Start-up behind erectile dysfunction website Roman launches health service for womenhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/erectile-dysfunction-website-roman-launches-health-service-for-women.html
Ro, the men&#039;s health start-up known for straight-to-your-door erectile dysfunction medication, is launching a new service targeting women.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:00:00 +0100NEW YORK TIMES: No Babies in Parliament, Danish Lawmaker Is Toldhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/europe/denmark-baby-parliament.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
A century of Danish advances for women met a barrier when a legislator was told by another female lawmaker that her baby had no place in Parliament, setting off a debate about gender politics.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:59:08 +0100BBC: Cyclone Idai: Mozambique survivors desperate for helphttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47637166
The UN calls the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in southern Africa a "massive disaster", with hundreds dead.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:53:18 +0100WASHINGTON POST: AP Interview: Thai PM hopeful wants constitutional changeshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/ap-interview-thai-pm-hopeful-wants-constitutional-changes/2019/03/20/36b118aa-4b06-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
AP Interview: The leader of Thailand’s oldest political party says if he becomes prime minister after Sunday’s election, he’ll make careful efforts to undo undemocratic constitutional clauses imposed by the military government that took power in 2014Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:49:28 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: Baseball star to agree richest deal in sporthttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/YkRneYJaIeE/index.html
Mike Trout, one of the most sought-after baseball players of his generation, looks set to agree a 12-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Angels worth a stunning $430 million, according to multiple reports.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/YkRneYJaIeE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:48:59 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Pakistan sentences Czech model to 8 years on drug chargehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pakistan-sentences-czech-model-to-8-years-on-drug-charge/2019/03/20/c4bb24de-4b05-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Pakistani court sentences Czech model, arrested last year, to 8 years, 8 months on drug trafficking chargesWed, 20 Mar 2019 12:48:19 +0100WASHINGTON POST: The Latest: Italian minister explains refusal of migrantshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/the-latest-italian-minister-explains-refusal-of-migrants/2019/03/20/cc3b8c76-4b05-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
Italy’s hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has given an emotional defense of his decision last summer to refuse to allow migrants aboard an Italian coast guard ship to disembark in a Sicilian portWed, 20 Mar 2019 12:46:29 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: A no-deal Brexit happens in 10 days and no one knows if the EU will stop ithttp://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/vv7D3QNAjNE/index.html
Brexit is deep into its most crucial week since the last one.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/vv7D3QNAjNE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:45:47 +0100TASS (Russian News Agency): Putin congratulates Tokayev on assuming post of Kazakhstan’s presidenthttp://tass.com/politics/1049575
Russia and Kazakhstan will step up cooperation, according to PutinWed, 20 Mar 2019 12:45:46 +0100CNN WORLD NEWS: More than 300 million people will celebrate Nowruz (and you should, too)http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/skKKAfHfmDY/index.html
For millions of people across the globe, Nowruz is no small celebration. Think Christmas, New Year's and Fourth of July combined -- and add to it fire festivities, delicious meats, rice and spices, family gatherings, street dances and loud banging on pots.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/skKKAfHfmDY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:43:09 +0100NEW YORK POST: EU fines Google $1.69B for blocking rival advertisershttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/eu-fines-google-1-69b-for-blocking-rival-advertisers/
BRUSSELS – EU antitrust regulators handed down a 1.49 billion euro ($1.69 billion) fine to Alphabet unit Google on Wednesday for blocking rival online search advertisers, marking the company’s third penalty in two years. Last year, the EU competition enforcer imposed a record 4.34 billion euro fine on Google for using its popular Android mobile...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:41:50 +0100(USA) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Military Officials Dispute Amnesty International Allegations of Civilian Casualtieshttps://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1789748/military-officials-dispute-amnesty-international-allegations-of-civilian-casual/
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:40:40 +0100WASHINGTON POST: Hungarian party faces discipline from center-right EU blochttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/hungarian-party-faces-discipline-from-center-right-eu-bloc/2019/03/20/f5c4d36e-4b04-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
A senior lawmaker from Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party says Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party may be suspended from the main center-right bloc in the European ParliamentWed, 20 Mar 2019 12:40:29 +0100WASHINGTON POST: EU fines Google $1.7 billion for abusing online ads markethttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/eu-fines-google-17-billion-for-abusing-online-ads-market/2019/03/20/5fdd665e-4b04-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html
EU regulators fine Google 1.49 billion euros ($1.68 billion) for abusing its dominance in online advertisingWed, 20 Mar 2019 12:36:18 +0100NEW YORK POST: Owner of Nazi-themed business charged with sharing video of mosque massacrehttps://nypost.com/2019/03/20/owner-of-nazi-themed-business-charged-with-sharing-video-of-mosque-massacre/
A man who owns a Nazi-themed insulation company has been charged with sharing the horrific livestream video of the mass shooting at a New Zealand mosque. Philip Arps, 44, appeared Wednesday in Christchurch District Court on two counts of distributing objectionable material under the Films Act. The heavily tattooed man, dressed in a blue T-shirt...Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:35:35 +0100